{"id":226599,"date":"2025-12-06T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-offers-efficient-cooling-for-data-centers"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:24:13","slug":"reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-offers-efficient-cooling-for-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-offers-efficient-cooling-for-data-centers","title":{"rendered":"Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-offers-efficient-cooling-for-data-centers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second\u2014but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Applied Energy<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0306261925005884\" target=\"_blank\">a techno-economic analysis<\/a> led by Hyunjun Oh, David Sickinger, and Diana Acero-Allard\u2014researchers in NLR\u2019s energy storage and computational science groups\u2014has demonstrated a system to cool data centers more efficiently and cost-effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The approach, called reservoir thermal energy storage (RTES), stores cold energy underground then uses it to cool facilities during peak-demand periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second\u2014but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226599","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}