Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, Nerdalize plans to equip the first 42 Dutch households with this innovative heating system in August, as a first step in providing free heat from computer servers to everyone in the Netherlands.

The system was tested in 2015, in five households: servers were put in houses and their heat was turned into usable heat by means of a radiator, with no energy wasted to cool servers. In a new version, the servers can be connected to the central heating system, and the heat can be used for hot water over the whole year. Moreover, as Nerdalize does not, as a result, have to build expensive data centers, money is saved and CO2 emissions are cut – today, data centers emit more CO2 than the world’s airline industry  Tweet This!.

Up to now 3,500 people have shown interest in this heating system and Boaz Leupe, co-founder of Nerdalize, has raised €250,000 using the crowdfunding platform Symbid.

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