Amazon to use a neighbor’s data center to heat its new Seattle high-rise

If waste heat could be considered the lemon of data center output then Amazon and a Seattle partner have come up with a way to make lemonade.

From a report on TechFlash.

In what’s believed to be the first of its kind system, Amazon.com will use the waste heat from a data center to provide much of the heat in its high-rise campus under construction in downtown Seattle.

Once it’s implemented, Amazon will save three-quarters of the electricity it would have bought for heat otherwise, according to McKinstry, a Seattle construction and energy services company. In addition, the operator of the data center, Clise Properties, will save some money on electricity and a lot of water. Earlier this year, Clise and McKinstry formed a company called Eco District to design and build the system.

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