Intelligence Update
Should data centers sell their heat?
There is an enduring idea in the industry that capturing and selling the waste heat produced by a data center can be profitable. However, after more than two decades of implementation, there is little evidence that heat can be turned into a reliable source of additional revenue for data center operators.
This poses an issue for waste heat recovery advocates: it eliminates one of the key benefits intended to compensate data center operators for the difficulties associated with running waste heat recovery programs. Some of the frequently cited problems with data center heat export include:
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