This Japanese data center cools its servers year-round by using snow collected during the winter -- and the heat from the servers is used to grow mushrooms and coffee beans.
Bibai, in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, and its White Data Center have turned to snow.At WDC, snow is collected and piled up in an insulated mound outside the building. Heat captured from its servers slowly melts the snow, and the water cools pipes containing antifreeze — which then flows around the data center via an AC system, keeping temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius .
During the summer months, the snow mound is insulated with a covering of wood chips and dirt. Storing"free" cold energy falling from the sky is a no-brainer as a business opportunity, says Takahisa Tsuchiya, executive director of Bibai City's economic department."We always say that we should change our point of view and make the snow be on our side," he adds.Snow cooling is only one piece of the data center's energy puzzle.
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