> If the servers do heavy data processing when no one needs the heat, the system stores hot water in a “buffering tank.” And the Cloud&Heat cabinets can also vent outside in the spring and summer.
> I've always found it odd that heat from servers is hot enough to be a problem but not hot enough to be useful.
I've always wondered the same thing about cooling towers in power stations. Why are they cooling the water coming out of the plant? The whole point of the plant is to make it hot and then convert that to electricity - why on earth are they venting the energy like that?
Apparently it's to do with cooling it fast enough to create a vacuum to draw through more water.
