Datacenters as Local Energy Partners
From Energy Challenge to Community Asset
We turn data centers into local energy partners
Data centers consume large amounts of electricity and continuously generate heat. Technologies already exist to recover that heat, use batteries and UPS systems for flexibility, and connect data centers to district heating and local energy networks.
The real challenge starts when these systems interact. Available heat may not match local demand in time or capacity, while buildings, industry, storage and the electricity grid each operate with different needs and constraints. What starts as heat recovery quickly becomes a multi-component local energy system.
NeoVest coordinates the local microgrid connecting the data center, heat recovery, heat pumps, thermal storage, buildings, industry and the electricity grid. By continuously balancing available heat with changing demand and network capacity, the software supports reliable heat sharing rather than relying on a single heat consumer.
Forecasts, storage capacity, energy prices and operational limits are considered continuously to determine when energy should be used, stored or shared. This helps maintain a stable balance between heat supply and demand, increase the utilization of recovered heat, improve grid integration and reduce energy expenses.
From recovered heat to reliable heat sharing
Recovering heat is only the first step. Its value depends on whether there is sufficient demand when the heat is available.
Within the microgrid, NeoVest coordinates multiple heat producers, consumers and storage assets. Thermal storage can shift heat in time, heat pumps can adjust temperature levels, and buildings or industrial users with different demand profiles can absorb available heat when others cannot.
The same coordination extends to electricity. Batteries, UPS systems, flexible loads and local generation can respond to grid conditions while operating alongside the thermal microgrid.
The result is a coordinated microgrid that enables reliable energy sharing and turns the data center into a local energy partner.
District energy sharing
Explore how waste heat and cooling flows move between a data center hub and surrounding buildings across different seasonal scenarios.
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