Vattenfall pilots data centre business

Swedish multinational Vattenfall is partnering with data centre specialist Cloud&Heat Technologies to offer sustainable computing capacity.

The partnership is designed to pilot the delivery of fossil-free, reliable high-speed data centre capacity.

The data centre, outside Stockholm, is equipped with high-end servers to cater for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications and is designed with direct utilisation of excess heat in the adjacent district heating plant process.

The new data centre consists of two data centre containers located at Vattenfall’s biomass-fired district heating plant in Jordbro, south of Stockholm.

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Vattenfall provides the infrastructure and the secured site space, Cloud&Heat Technologies runs the operations, contributing together to a CO2-free computing process.

“The demand for high-performance and low-cost computing capacity is increasing rapidly, especially for Internet of Things and artificial intelligence applications,” says Birger Ober, Project Manager at Vattenfall.

“Our new data centre at our pilot site in Sweden is ready for operation for customers expecting cost-efficient, reliable, and fossil-free computing capacity.”

The service provided by Cloud&Heat Technologies is a full-service machine learning/artificial intelligence stack.

Dr Jens Struckmeier, CTO at Cloud&Heat Technologies adds: “Vattenfall’s expertise and Cloud&Heat’s technology allowed the erection of a water-cooled data centre that emits zero CO2 during its operation and in addition, is directly integrated in Vattenfall’s heat network for direct heat reuse.”