The Finnish IT company Academica has installed a new 2MW database server centre in an empty second world war bomb shelter meant to protect city officials in the event of a Russian attack. Water warmed while cooling the servers will go on to provide heat for 500 homes or 1,000 flats in a city that often suffers winters of -20C. After the heat is extracted, the water will be recycled back to cool the servers again.
"There have been smaller implementations of similar systems," says Pietari Päivänen, head of sales at Academica. "Data centres being used to heat parking lots. No one has conducted the heat towards a central heating system however."
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