Soon the heat of a datacenter located close to Paris will be used for the amusement park Euro Disney.

Val d’Europe has more than 1700 companies located in business park, adjacent to Disneyland Paris. The group Disney just announced this morning a partnership with Dalkia, a subsidiary of EDF. The goal of this project: a new method of heating, green, and never seen in France.

Indeed, the heat generated by the operation of the cooling system of the servers will be recovered and used to heat buildings connected to Dalkia. The process should be operational before the end of the year.

The datacenter is located in a building with an area of ​​8000 square meters. Its use as a "boiler" is expected to heat 600,000 square feet of offices and prevent the emission of 5400 tons of CO2 per year, but also to provide hot water to buildings, and perhaps even the swimming pool.

Francis Borrezée, director of real estate and tourism development of Euro Disney, said the data center-boiler represents currently 8000 m2 and it would be built in three phases to eventually reach 25,000 m2.

For his part, Jean-Philippe Buisson, Dalkia Ile-de-France, says his company is strongly focused on renewable energy: biogas recovery of waste heat swimming pool water or sewage, and so on.

The first on French soil had few precedents in the world. Thus, in Switzerland, a data center is used to heat the swimming pool of a city. And Finland, at the center of Helsinki is the sea water which cools the Atos data center. The liquid is then recovered for heating of 2000 private homes.

Source: www.linformaticien.com

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