{"id":133972,"date":"2022-01-12T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T06:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/facebooks-hyperscale-data-center-warms-odense"},"modified":"2022-01-12T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T06:23:48","slug":"facebooks-hyperscale-data-center-warms-odense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/facebooks-hyperscale-data-center-warms-odense","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s hyperscale data center warms Odense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebooks-hyperscale-data-center-warms-odense.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similar projects in Denmark have used recaptured heat from smaller structures, such as supermarkets, to supply a nearby building or two. The Facebook project scales the technology to a level not yet reached in the world by producing up to 25 MW per hour of usable heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook opened their new data center in Odense,\u201d said Denmark\u2019s Minister of Climate, Energy, and Utilities, Dan J\u00f8rgensen, on Instagram. \u201cIt\u2019s based on renewable energy only (from their own wind farm) and feeds their surplus heat into the district heating system. Good news for the transition to green energy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a nation, Denmark has set a goal to eliminate the use of coal by 2030. The heat recovery project supports Odense\u2019s even more aggressive goal to phase out coal (which 30 percent of the city still depends on for heat) by 2023 \u2014 a modern feat for a city that just celebrated its 1,031st anniversary. Facebook\u2019s data center is estimated to reduce Odense\u2019s demand for coal by up to 25 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar projects in Denmark have used recaptured heat from smaller structures, such as supermarkets, to supply a nearby building or two. The Facebook project scales the technology to a level not yet reached in the world by producing up to 25 MW per hour of usable heat. \u201cFacebook opened their new data center in Odense,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}