It doesn't take many computers to generate a lot of heat but it's important to their stability that they run in a carefully controlled climate. Many Data Centers use additional gas or electricity to heat and cool the non-data portions of their facilities. But we're implementing heat pumps that utilize the heat from the data center to heat the offices and generator rooms in the winter and utilize the data centers highly efficient cooling towers to provide cooling to the offices in the summer. This not only saves us money on burning gas or electricity to heat the space, but is more environmentally friendly. Our use of well water for the cooling towers also provides geothermal heat removal since all the water being input to the towers is from the earth at a constant 55 degrees Fahrenheit which removes btu's from the water and the building naturally.
Geothermal Cooling
Another cooling resource we're exploring is the use of well water in an outside cooling tower. As mentioned above it gives us natural BTU removal through geothermal cooling but it also gives us a big savings in water replacement and reduces the amount of electricity needed to distribute city water over long distances and the harmful chemicals used in its treatment for drinking purification, as well conserves potable water in the citys watershed.
Air to Air Heat Exchange
Using an indoor climate computer, we monitor the outside temp and simply exchange our hot air in the heating and cooling system with chilled air from outside. This is another energy saver and that also takes a lot of load off the compressors of the AC units and eliminates the need for additional materials in the ac units in the form of waterside economizers which use precious copper.