Pennsylvania’s network of abandoned coal mines and a growing push to recycle waste heat from servers are converging around a single question: whether the state can host a new wave of data centers ...

The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million ...

In neighborhoods around the world, a potent resource slips away unnoticed. This buried treasure is waste heat — a powerhouse for low-carbon energy that often remains untapped. Buildings, factories and ...

Data centers—the warehouse-sized buildings that store photos, stream movies and train artificial intelligence—are voracious consumers of electricity. A surprisingly large share of that power never ...

There are many who believe that combined heat and power (CHP) will be the norm in building design for the next generation of engineers. A discussion about CHP is not complete until one considers the ...

Scientists in the United States has developed a new photovoltaic-thermal system design that utilizes parallel water pipes as a cooling system to reduce the operating temperature of photovoltaic panels ...

Data centers and high-performance computing centers always require cooling and constantly reject heat. When built as standalone facilities, this heat is rejected and any opportunity to recover it is ...

Fuel-agnostic and suitable for newbuilds and retrofit, Organic Rankine Cycle waste heat recovery systems are making headway as an energy-efficiency measure. Market prospects are looking so good for ...

James (Jim) S. Cotton works for and owns shares in Harvest Systems Inc. He receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (CRDPJ 401203143 - 2018) and the Ministry ...