Multi - Energy Resources Planning for Data Center Operation and Residential Heating

With data centers surging worldwide, its enormous energy consumption, especially for the computational equipment, is required to deal with nowadays. Similarly, the building energy utilization is ever-increasing in most of the nations. Considering that most power used for IT servers of data center would, in turn, produce a vast amount of waste heat, one main perspective is to harvest the waste heat to offset the heat demand of residential building within a microgrid. Under this consideration, a MILP problem is formulated and discussed for optimization of the planning for the operation strategies of data center, generation units and residential building as an organization, aiming to minimize the operation cost and enhance the energy efficiency to its full extent. The results demonstrate the individual contribution of each supply in both power and heat section and confirm the effectiveness of the proposed model.