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Data Centres
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Excess heat used for swimming pools
HEAT GENERATED BY a washing-machine- sized data centre is being used to heat a public swimming pool in the United Kingdom (UK).
The innovative solution has reduced electric- ity costs at the council run Exmouth Leisure Centre in Devon.
The computers inside the white box are sur- rounded by oil to capture the heat.
It is enough to heat the pool to 30 degrees Celsius 60 per cent of the time.
The data centre is provided to the council-run centre free of charge.
Start-up Deep Green charges clients to use its computing power for artificial intelli- gence and machine learning.
However, the data centre is made available to the council free of charge.
Another seven UK pools have signed up to the scheme.
The concept, developed over five years, is incredibly simple. The hot oil is pumped into a heat exchanger to warm the water in the pool.
Space economy is here
A UNITED STATES startup which is planning to deploy data centres on the moon has suc- cessfully raised $5 million in seed funding.
The startup, Lonestar Data Holdings, said the financing round was over subscribed.
It was led by Scout Ventures and joined by Seldor Capital, 2 Future Holding, The Veteran Fund, Irongate Capital, Atypical Ventures, and KittyHawk Ventures.
Lonestar, which is working to expand the
world’s economy to encompass the moon, is scheduled to launch a series of data centres to the lunar surface later this year.
Scott Ventures’ founder and managing partner, Brad Harrison, said the moon just happens to be the Earth's most stable satel- lite and is the next whitespace in the new space economy.
“Data security and storage will be a neces- sary part of leading the new generation of lunar exploration,” he said. ✺
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