What are the possible applications on waste heat?
Waste heat reuse has been proven to lower the overall CO2e emissions of a data centre and mustn’t be ignored as a key sustainability strategy. Heat reuse can also be a prime contributing factor to the optimisation of data centre efficiency.
However, there are currently some challenges in a complete deployment of a waste heat reuse program, which has led some operators around the world to greenwash the idea.
Datacenter Dynamics’ Peter Judge has included some of our comments on this topic, including our partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies.
Please take a look: The Circular Economy Supplement.
Status-quo of the Norwegian data centre market
It has long been a plan of Norwegian municipalities to introduce more data centre investment into the region.
Our CEO, Petter M. Tømmeraas, who is also the President of the Norwegian Datacenter Industry, explains more about the data centre investment strategy for Norway.
The three main points of the strategy that gonna really attract the investment in Norway are:
- The cooperation between public and private sector.
- The cost efficiency of Norway due to the lower energy tax.
- The continued over production of energy.
Please take a look in the podcast with JSA.
Petter M. Tømmeraas CEO of AQ Compute
We are delighted to have welcomed Petter M. Tømmeraas as the CEO for the AQ Compute Team, driving the sustainable data centre initiative within this leg of Aquila Capital.
Petter’s extensive background in the data centre industry will be invaluable for our operation. Our collective alignment to sustainability goals will be a catalyst to our growth in this sector.
Please have a read on the press release.
Aquila Capital enters data centre market
Since 2012, Aquila Capital has been developing their portfolio of sustainable, energy-efficient real estate and logistics projects in Europe.
Go-ahead for AQ Compute: to further expand the portfolio, the company is entering the data centre industry with a complete focus towards sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions. The first development in Norway has paved the way for us to further contribute to sustainability within Europe.
Have a look at our press release to find out more about our goals and objectives.
What makes a data centre green?
How does heat waste management work? Carl von Hessen dives deeper in a t3n Magazin podcast.
It is widely understood that data centres are power-hungry, being among the biggest electricity consumers in the digital infrastructure space. As a result of constant computing processes, data centres also generate a lot of heat, which presents a problem: can waste heat generated from servers be used in a smart manner? Does this make a data centre “greener”?
Our Head of Data Center Investments, Carl von Hessen, discusses this topic in more detail in a t3n Magazin podcast.
