A survey on data center cooling systems: Technology, power consumption modeling and control strategy optimization

Q Zhang, Z Meng, X Hong, Y Zhan, J Liu, J Dong… - Journal of Systems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Data center is a fundamental infrastructure of computers and networking equipment to
collect, store, process, and distribute huge amounts of data for a variety of applications such …

The status of 4th generation district heating: Research and results

H Lund, PA Østergaard, M Chang, S Werner… - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This review article presents a description of contemporary developments and findings
related to the different elements needed in future 4th generation district heating systems …

[HTML][HTML] Role of sustainable heat sources in transition towards fourth generation district heating–A review

AM Jodeiri, MJ Goldsworthy, S Buffa… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
As an integrated part of future sustainable energy systems, district heating has been widely
established as a convenient solution to provide energy-efficient space heating and sanitary …

A review of data centers as prosumers in district energy systems: Renewable energy integration and waste heat reuse for district heating

P Huang, B Copertaro, X Zhang, J Shen, I Löfgren… - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
As large energy prosumers in district energy systems, on the one hand, data centers
consume a large amount of electricity to ensure the Information Technologies (IT) facilities …

Performance investigation of a biomimetic latent heat thermal energy storage device for waste heat recovery in data centers

Y Huang, Z Deng, Y Chen, C Zhang - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving the power usage effectiveness of data centers has become a significant challenge
for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. To address this, here we propose a single-phase …

[HTML][HTML] District heating and cooling networks with decentralised energy substations: Opportunities and barriers for holistic energy system decarbonisation

O Angelidis, A Ioannou, D Friedrich, A Thomson… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Decarbonisation of the thermal grid whilst ensuring affordability and security of supply,
requires a holistic approach which relies on sector coupling and energy storage. District …

[HTML][HTML] Waste heat recoveries in data centers: A review

X Yuan, Y Liang, X Hu, Y Xu, Y Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Data centers (DCs) uninterruptedly run 24/24 h, 365 days per year with much huge
operating scale, and have the characteristics of high operation safety requirement, high heat …

[HTML][HTML] The cloud is material: On the environmental impacts of computation and data storage

SG Monserrate - 2022 - mit-serc.pubpub.org
In the age of machine learning, cryptocurrency mining, and seemingly infinite data storage
capacity enabled by cloud computing, the environmental costs of ubiquitous computing in …

[HTML][HTML] A critical overview of working fluids in organic rankine, supercritical rankine, and supercritical brayton cycles under various heat grade sources

AS Chowdhury, MM Ehsan - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), Supercritical Rankine Cycle (SRC), and
Supercritical Brayton Cycle (SBC) are three power cycles that are systematically …

Data centres in future European energy systems—energy efficiency, integration and policy

C Koronen, M Åhman, LJ Nilsson - Energy Efficiency, 2020 - Springer
End-use efficiency, demand response and coupling of different energy vectors are important
aspects of future renewable energy systems. Growth in the number of data centres is leading …