A load of hot air?
Described as a"low carbon housing estate of the future," the idea is that waste energy from these datacenters will be used to provide heating and hot water for the new homes, DESNZ said.
The £36 million being coughed up for this scheme is part of a larger £65 million fund that will support another four green energy projects. £21 million of this is going to Lancaster University to"fully decarbonise" its campus with air source heat pumps and thermal storage, while the remainder will be spent on housing estates in London, Suffolk, and Watford to install heat pumps.
In a statement announcing the new projects, Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho said:"We are investing in the technologies of the future so that families across the country will now be able to warm their homes with low-carbon, recycled heat – while creating thousands of new skilled jobs.""The datacentres are within the OPDC area. OPDC are in advanced commercial and technical discussions with two data centres.
"Following the successful application to the Green Heat Network Fund, OPDC are in the commercialisation phase of the project. £1m of the £36m grant was for this phase. We are currently preparing to launch a procurement for a Partner to develop the project through design and construction. We're expecting the project could start heating homes as early as 2027, subject to relevant approvals during the commercialisation phase.
Other schemes to recycle the waste heat from datacenters for domestic purposes were announced over the past few years, yet UK government is claiming this as the first of its kind for Britain.with Finland's largest energy company last year to build a new datacenter near capital Helsinki that could provide heat to local homes and businesses.
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