Imagine if the heat coming off your laptop could actually warm your living room. This technology turns data centers into giant heaters that provide hot water for buildings. Instead of using electricity to cool down servers, it captures that heat and sends it where it is needed.
Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and waste the majority of it as heat, while buildings simultaneously spend money to generate heat. This creates an inefficient system where energy is spent twice.
A patented digital boiler (QBx) for heat recovery and a middleware orchestrator (Qware) for managing distributed cloud services.
If you are a city utility dealing with high gas costs for heating — this project developed the QBx digital boiler that provides low carbon heat up to 65°C. It replaces traditional heating plants by using waste heat from servers.
If you are a facility manager dealing with expensive water heating bills — this project developed hardware that recovers 95% of server heat. This allows you to heat pools using the byproduct of cloud computing services.
If you are a digital service provider dealing with a carbon footprint that is too high — this project developed a distributed infrastructure that reduces carbon footprint by up to 80% compared to regular European data centers.
It eliminates the need for air-conditioning energy, which typically accounts for around 40% of total data center energy, and saves energy otherwise used for gas heating.
Yes, the project aims to scale and take an industrial turn, with QBx units already installed to provide energy to heat networks and swimming pools.
The solution relies on proprietary technological bricks, specifically the QBx, which is described as a patented digital boiler.
Based on available project data, the company uses an in-house middleware called Qware to orchestrate and distribute cloud services across geographically distributed sites.
The project period runs from 2023-05-01 to 2025-04-30.
The project is led by Qarnot Computing, a French SME with 60 high-skilled employees. The consortium is highly streamlined, consisting of 2 SMEs from a single country (France), resulting in a 100% industry ratio. This structure suggests a fast-to-market commercial focus rather than a theoretical research approach.
Contact Qarnot Computing in France regarding QBx hardware integration.
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