This comes amid a crisis in the energy marketMicrosoft Corporation announced the construction of a data center in Helsinki. They want to use the waste heat there to heat houses and enterprises. Discuss =”Microsoft will start heating homes in Finland with its servers” Microsoft will start heating homes in Finland with its servers 46.1 degrees Celsius. For everything to function properly, heat must be efficiently dissipated.
So Microsoft decided to partner with the Finnish energy company Fortum. There are now 900 kilometers of underground pipes in the Greater Helsinki area, which are used to heat 250,000 homes. Heat is transferred by pumping water through insulated pipes. Fortum has calculated that Microsoft's data center waste heat could heat up to 40% of homes in some areas.
Construction of the data center should start soon.