Data centres produce enough waste heat to meet 33% of global heating demand
Introducing The Data Centre Heat Company, the world's first data centre Energy Services Company dedicated to heat reuse
Putting heat reuse at the heart of digital infrastructure
Our Vision
Imagine a world where data centre waste heat is widely captured and supplied to homes and businesses, lowering energy costs for consumers while reducing competition for grid capacity for operators and providing a tangible benefit to their communities. It's quite an ask for every individual data centre operator to make this happen, which is why we founded The Data Centre Heat Company. To be the go-to aggregator of data centre heat, and to provide commercially sustainable solutions rather than rely on overstretched governments to turn opportunity into action.
Benefits of enabling heat recovery for data centre operators
Corporate Sustainability
Waste heat is an abundent resource which costs nothing to produce yet is being allowed to go to waste at a time when the price of energy is high on the social agenda. By developing a heat reuse plan, data centre operators demonstrate that they are at the forefront of making a tangible impact on corporate sustainability objectives.
Legal Compliance
In 2023, the European Union's Energy Efficiency Directive was updated to require data centres above a certain size to engage in mandatory heat reuse. This is now being implemented in member states such as Germany via the Energy Efficiency Act 2024 which requires data centres to recover a minimum 10% of waste heat by July 2026 rising to 20% by 2028.
Reducing Grid Competition
Fifth generation heat networks using water-source heat pumps with supply water temperatures of 25-30C are around twice as efficient as standalone air source heat pumps, and therefore have the potential to halve demand for power from heating systems. As governments increasingly require the installation of heat pumps to replace gas boilers, data centres which are already st
Improving community relations
Whether deserved or not, data centres can have a mixed reputation with their host communities. News of new data centre developments can be met with scepticism, potetnially increasing the difficultly of obtaining planning permission to develop. Now consider how much more favourably the same community would consider an application if it meant lower energy bills in the lo
Payment for exported heat
Depending on local energy pricing and laws, heat reuse can be an opportunity as an additional income stream for data centre operators. With minimal up-front or ongiong capital commitment required in order to become 'heat recovery ready', selling waste heat has significant financial upside allowing operators to increase margins or offer more competitive rents to their custo
Receive Carbon Credits for offsetting customer CO2 emissions
Heat recovered from data centres directly offsets the need for burning the main fossil fuels used in heating such as oil and gas. Companies may be able to secure carbon offset credits for providing waste heat which can either be traded or retained to meet their own CSR goals.
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