Downtown Seattle is being slowly consume by Amazon - fund infrastructure , thanks to the expansion of its corporate headquarters — trash domes , bike lane , streetcar improvements . Now the troupe has figured out an forward-looking way to hot up their young building by using the energy give by their data centers across the street .
The process — telephone hydronic heat — works by transferring the heat created by the data nerve center to a meshwork of piss pipe , which will move around under the street to Amazon ’s central heating system scheme . When all the heat has dissipated , the weewee travels back across the street back to the datum centers where the no - longer - warm water can aid keep operation there cool .
Not only will Amazon have plenty of heat for the three different construction on its campus , it might even have some left over to apportion . “ My sympathy is the waste hotness from this facility is pregnant enough to support more than just those three , ” Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brientells Geekwire . “ I see this task as a first step toward what I trust to be a district - wide free energy system , that we can build off this as a catalyst . ”
That would make it more like Helsinki ’s “ territory chill ” arrangement , which uses the stale piss from man - made secret lake to chill twelve of structures in its downtown . In fact , Amazon ’s plan could eventually lead to a alike organization where extra buildings and data center could well be added to the connection , share and swapping their warming and cool down potentiality as need . Which makes perfect sense for a growing technical school dominion . [ Geekwire ]
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