Capstone Energy Plus, CPEL, Potential Modified Use of Turbines in Data Centers
A tech question from a non-tech person regarding CEPL's Turbine Technology.
Noise is an issue (understatement) with data centers, and cooling is paramount.
In a closed loop system: cooled water in a, for lack of a better term, basin or cistern is constantly flowing into cooling pipes, which run to large scale computer processing equipment. The water heats up as it cools the processing equipment.
Question: Can that heated water be used to power turbines? Power from which is then used to continue the flow of water underground for initial cooling, then through a cooling system, which ultimately leads to the enclosed basin, or cistern.
The whole thing would flow continuously with the exception of scheduled maintenance to the entire system.
Finally, would their be enough power from the heated water run turbines to run the water cooling system... and possibly even provide some of the power for the computer processing?
Again, I'm not a tech person. Just wondering if Capstone Turbines could be modified to somehow harness the power of heated water from cooling data center computer infrastructure, thus generating power to, possibly, both keep the cooling system in a constant state of flow and help power the computational units.