SDIA - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V.
3 episodes
4 months ago
Follow the SDIA, moderated by its founder Max Schulze, on the journey towards understanding the challenges of making digital products & services and the infrastructure that powers them sustainable. Hear the latest insights from inside and outside the digital sector, from thought leaders to engineers. Understand the meaning of sustainability, thinking long-term, balancing environmental impact, economics and society - and learn how it applies to all actors from across the digital value chain. Most importantly: Learn, expand your horizon and enjoy insightful, engaging conversations.
All content for SDIA on Digital Sustainability is the property of SDIA - Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Follow the SDIA, moderated by its founder Max Schulze, on the journey towards understanding the challenges of making digital products & services and the infrastructure that powers them sustainable. Hear the latest insights from inside and outside the digital sector, from thought leaders to engineers. Understand the meaning of sustainability, thinking long-term, balancing environmental impact, economics and society - and learn how it applies to all actors from across the digital value chain. Most importantly: Learn, expand your horizon and enjoy insightful, engaging conversations.
Data Centers, the Future of Heating? - Talking to Rolf Brink from Asperitas
SDIA on Digital Sustainability
49 minutes
5 years ago
Data Centers, the Future of Heating? - Talking to Rolf Brink from Asperitas
Are data centers the future of heating for cities like Amsterdam?
In today's episode our host Mohan Gandhi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohan-gandhi-8710b97b/]welcomes Rolf Brink [https://www.linkedin.com/company/35620104/admin/#], CEO of Asperitas [https://www.asperitas.com/]. If you haven't met Rolf yet - he is one of the few visionaries actively working to get heat from data centers into your living room. To recover the heat Asperitas [https://www.asperitas.com/] developed an innovative immersion cooling technology.
Listen to our the podcast to hear how the company was created, what benefits immersion cooling technology has for data centers and what the opportunities are in the Amsterdam region.
Want to know more? Download the Executive Summary [https://sdialliance.org/reports/future-digital-utility/] of the SDIA Report "The Utility of the Future" here:
Chapters:
[00:05] Intro
[05:53] The speciality about immersion cooling for data centers
[10:05] Immersion Cooling, Heat Utilization and the Design of Data Centers
[12:45] 5G and Edge and what it means for future data center facilities
[22:59] Opportunities in the Amsterdam and Holland Region
[24:55] Deep Dive into Heat Utilization from data centers
[26:00] The relevance of heating grids for data centers
[29:49] Circular Economy and the eco system around heat utilization
[34:36] What role do co-locations play?
[38:49] High density facilities - Where Immersion Cooling fits perfectly
[46:29] Barriers for immersion cooling
SDIA on Digital Sustainability
Follow the SDIA, moderated by its founder Max Schulze, on the journey towards understanding the challenges of making digital products & services and the infrastructure that powers them sustainable. Hear the latest insights from inside and outside the digital sector, from thought leaders to engineers. Understand the meaning of sustainability, thinking long-term, balancing environmental impact, economics and society - and learn how it applies to all actors from across the digital value chain. Most importantly: Learn, expand your horizon and enjoy insightful, engaging conversations.
