Abstract draft

Energy consumption in the US is increasing quickly as our technological needs are increasing. As more businesses create services for users, more servers in data centers are necessary. In order to reduce the energy consumption of data centers, we analyzed how much energy a waste-to-energy (WTE) facility could provide to a data center using a heat pump system if the two facilities were integrated together. After analyzing the information from our simulation model, we found that combining a data center with a WTE facility will reduce a data center’s energy consumption by 20%.