“Summer storage and winter furnace” – data center waste heat recovery and utilization system for seasonal heat storage

Abstract

As Chinese society moves towards a more intelligent and connected society, there is an increasing demand for data centers. Under normal circumstances, datacenter IT equipment runs 24 hours a day, which consumes a lot of power and emits a lot of heat. Therefore, when the data center consumes power, it also needs power refrigeration and the ambient temperature to ensure the normal operation of the data center, resulting in huge resource consumption. Combined with the background of carbon neutrality and the current situation of large heating demand and long heating period in Northeast China, this project proposes to use data center waste heat resources as the heat source of building heating, reduce the power consumption required for data center cooling, improve the utilization efficiency and economic efficiency of data center waste heat, and then reduce the carbon emission of data center and building heating.