Data Scientists and Artists Heating Up Homes in Basel

Swiss-based cloud computing project DeepSquare teamed up with IWB Industrielle Werke Basel in a pilot project aimed at capturing and reusing the heat generated by cloud computing.

This pilot project proves that providing heat to a residential building from the “waste” heat of ICT-Equipment is not a utopia, but an actual concept that works and can potentially be established as a standard in Smart Cities. The system developed in this pilot project is currently able to produce approximately 5 kW of heat supply to be used in a residential building in Basel – cutting the fossil fuel consumption of the 3-story townhouse, in an old building standard, by half.

About DeepSquare
DeepSquare is a Swiss-based project disrupting the cloud supply chain and changing how cloud computing is delivered and consumed. The project is building a decentralised cloud computing ecosystem focused on High Performance Computing. This means that companies, regardless of their size and compute needs, can access supercomputing resources to run their AI, rendering, render streaming, prototyping and simulations workloads in an easy and transparent manner.

About IWB
IWB supplies people and companies with energy, water, mobility and telecommunications. In Switzerland, IWB is the first port of call for climate-friendly energy. In this way, the company contributes to a high  quality of life and a healthy environment in the region of Basel and beyond.

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