Waste heat recovery in a data center with an adsorption chiller: Technical and economic analysis

Computing load of data centers and high-performance clusters have increased significantly over the past decade, resulting in higher energy consumption and a larger carbon footprint. We provide a method to utilize the waste heat from a data center room that contains both air- and water-cooled racks. Heat dissipated by the water-cooled racks drives a silica gel-H2O adsorption chiller, which produces chilled water required for in-row cooling units …