AI might take your job, but you'll be toasty warm while you starve
Google plans to invest €1 billion to expand its datacenter campus in Finland – a move that will both bolster its AI compute capacity and reclaim the thermal energy generated by power hungry accelerators to heat local homes.The area also benefits from an abundance of hydroelectric and wind power – an attractive prospect for cloud providers looking to scale their AI compute capabilities without compromising on their carbon emission reduction commitments.
Beginning next year, Google plans to begin offloading the thermal energy generated by the facility to neighboring homes, through a partnership with local energy company Haminan Energia. Much of this heat will come from a €1 billion expansion to the datacenter complex designed to bolster Google's AI compute capacity, it revealed on Monday.
Waste heat from Google's datacenter campus in Hamina, Finland will provide 80 percent of the city's district heating demand, according to the Chocolate Factory – Click to enlarge "Our continued investment in our datacenter in Hamina is a testimony to Finland's role as a digital frontrunner and will help to further unlock the potential of AI among companies in the Kymenlaakso region, across the country and in Europe."
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