User:FLG Paris/Computing heater

Principles
The computing heater reuses the waste heat generated by embedded microprocessors to heat buildings,.

This system is developed by the French company Qarnot computing. It is a distributed alternative to traditional data centers that enables to reuse the IT heat waste.

The computing power of the heaters is used by companies to make batch computing that heats buildings. In 2020, 1,500 computers were deployed in social housings and offices in France.

Using the same principle, the company has launched digital boilers in 2019. They also embed microprocessors and the waste heat is recovered to heat water.

The heaters gather thousands of cores particularly adapted to edge computing. The computation can be made for artificial intelligence, machine learning, Monte-Carlo simulation, CFD, big data or even 3D animation.

Fight against energy precariousness and digital gap
By taking over the electricity invoice of the tenants equipped with computing heaters, Qarnot enabled 300 households to benefit from free heating in 2020. A wifi connector is also embedded in the heater.

Ecological benefit
The computing heaters enable to reduce the energy consumption and the carbon footprint of the computation and the heating. The French governement has acknowledged the ecological benefit of the heaters in 2019.

Awards

 * 2018: Climate Change Innovator Award during CES in Las Vegas
 * 2018: European Commission “Smarter with Cyber”
 * 2019: Solar Impulse Foundation: 1,000 solutions to fight climate change
 * 2019 : Métropole du Grand Paris award, “Digital and environment” category
 * 2020: Let's go France/PwC - "France and the challenge of new services" - Winner 2020
 * 2020: Stop Energy Exclusion, winner Ile-de-France