Facebook aims to minimize energy consumption, emissions, and water usage
When Facebook announced the construction of its Odense Data Center in 2017, they were determined to build one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers in the world. The new facility will feature the latest hyper-efficient hardware, which uses outdoor air with indirect evaporative cooling technology and is powered by clean, renewable wind energy.
This facility will also be unique because of infrastructure that will capture and recycle excess heat generated by the servers to provide heat to the local community. The energy recovered from the servers will be recycled by a newly constructed heat pump facility that is supported by 100% renewable energy. This energy will then be directed into the local district heating system operated by Fjernvarme Fyn.