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Even though temperatures in Paris will be sweltering during the 2024 Olympic Games, the pool where Olympic swimmers, divers and water polo players compete will still need to be heated. At the Paris Games, however, the water will not be heated in the traditional way – excess heat from AI servers will be used to heat the pool.
In Saint-Denis, France, American data company Equinix operates a mass AI training facility called PA10. AI data centers are notoriously high in heat and energy consumption, as many servers are needed to train AI language models for popular applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Llama.
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As the servers boot up, PA10 fills with excess heat and energy, which is then piped to a local energy system operated by Equinix, which sends the heat to the Olympics Aquatics Center to warm the swimming pool.
The excess energy will also be supplied to around 600 homes in the Saint-Denis neighborhood. Equinix told Wired that at full capacity, the center is expected to produce enough energy to heat 1,000 homes.
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The system is mutually beneficial because Equinix spends less money and energy cooling PA10 because the excess heat is exported elsewhere.
The 2024 Olympic Games are scheduled to end on August 11.
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