CAN CAT VIDEOS SAVE SWIMMING POOLS? HOW THE UK MUST HARNESS THE HEAT FROM GROWTH IN DATA CENTRES

To keep up with booming data demand, the UK needs to build lots of data centres very quickly. Does this mean building hundreds of vast, energy-hungry warehouses that put an increasing drain on the energy grid while wasting the vast amount of heat they generate into the atmosphere?
There is a better, sustainable way.
Join the CEO of Deep Green, Mark Bjornsgaard, who will explain their pioneering approach to deploy data centres in the ‘fabric of society’, to share heat from the servers to those that need it for free. This approach has many benefits. For the local community, huge social value is generated through free heat, cutting energy bills, and reducing carbon footprint. For the data centre sector ‘distributed’ compute allows rapid scale-up to meet demand, increases energy efficiency creating climate-friendly compute, and avoids many issues that traditionally plague the sector around planning permission and grid capacity. This year Octopus Energy invested £200 million in Deep Green to support the rapid roll-out of their technology.
So, surely more companies will follow in Deep Green’s footsteps? What can industry and government do to ensure that data centres do, meeting demand in an environmentally responsible way, maximising the good they produce for society?