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Company (SADC), a Green IT Amsterdam
participant, orchestrating the efforts.
Other communities are also offering
similar solutions, each of them
leveraging on their unique geographical,
technological and business characteristics.
For example, at Stockholm Data Parks,
a data centre is by default offered the
opportunity to plug into the city’s district
heating network (B2C).
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
Heat services are not however the only
answer. Data centres actually have the
potential to offer a diverse portfolio of
energy related services by exploiting
their IT operations and power and cooling
infrastructure to also participate at
emerging electricity, heat and energy
flexibility markets. Following this line
of thought, the next generation of
data centres should, by design, utilise
resources effectively, while ensuring
seamless integration with their
Smart City ecosystem: smart grids
and heating networks.
In this context, once again simply
focusing on energy reduction and
efficiency practices applied only within
the boundaries of one’s data centre is
no longer an option for those with the
ambition to own and operate the green
data centres of the future.
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