Data Centers Are a Hot Market — Don’t Waste the Heat!
Data centers and high-performance computing centers always require cooling and constantly reject heat. When built as stand-alone facilities, this heat is rejected, and any opportunity to recover it is lost.
Since data centers require continuous cooling (expelling waste heat throughout the year), mixed-use buildings or campus settings provide opportunities to employ waste heat recovery from the data center and reduce overall energy consumption.
Data centers and high-performance computing centers always require cooling and constantly reject heat. When built as stand-alone facilities, this heat is rejected, and any opportunity to recover it is lost. SmithGroup has successfully implemented ways to integrate data centers in mixed-use sites, utilizing waste heat to optimize the energy demands of the buildings.