Startup Warms Homes With Cloud Storage And Cuts CO2 Emissions

The modern world has given way to many wonders, but it has also brought about climate change via substantial CO2 emissions. One startup company wants to address these issues by using one of the biggest technological developments of the age to reduce carbon emissions in private home. Its solution? Use cloud servers to warm up people’s homes.

The startup in question is Nerdalize and on its website, the company provides a straightforward explanation as to what exactly it was trying to do. It basically involves using the heat that the servers used to power cloud storage would produce to provide warmth in homes in Holland. Not only will this help cut energy consumption in maintaining the servers, it helps reduce power usage in homes as well.

“Combined, datacenters use up more electricity than India and generate more CO2 emissions than the airline industry,” the website’s write-up reads. “One reason the industry is so energy intensive is that 40% of its total energy consumption on cooling to get rid of this heat. What a waste! Nerdalize avoids the datacenter entirely by placing these heat producing servers as aided heating systems in homes.”

In terms of innovative ideas, this would definitely rank at the top when it comes to energy conservation. Cloud storage servers have become important enough in the tech industry that they are now affecting power consumption in a big way. Instead of directing that power to negate the heat that these servers produce, using that heat for something else would be conservation at its best, Futurism notes.

As for how the company would even profit off of this arrangement, the main business model will revolve around selling data space. On the part of the homeowners, savings of about $337 from heating will be one of the advantages. Then there’s the savings on data storage costs on the part of businesses, which should amount to a 50 percent reduction.