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Asperitas creates AsperitasEI business unit.

Asperitas has created a business unit to group their current innovation projects and stimulate new projects related to circular energy. The new business unit is being labeled as Asperitas Energy Innovation, AsperitasEI. According to Asperitas this is the time to think beyond energy efficiency measures for datacentres alone and develop concepts where datacenters are truly integrated within smart energy infrastructure. Asperitas is collaborating with several energy industry players, cleantech startups and city officials on circular energy innovation and will group these activities under the newly established unit AsperitasEI.
 
Until now only very few datacentres are enabling heat reuse scenarios. This is mostly to blame to the low temperature air-cooled datacentres have to offer, making it difficult to transport and costly to bring the temperature up to a valuable level. Immersed Computing® is using liquid to cool IT hardware offering a much more efficient medium for heat reuse.

Asperitas launched Immersed Computing nine months ago. The total liquid cooling based technology is enabling datacentres to be more efficient, sustainable and flexible. Next to a energy footprint reduction the technology is offering another opportunity, it enables datacentres to transform from major energy consumers to energy suppliers. This vision has been presented in the last whitepaper of Asperitas, called Datacentre of the Future, presented at Datacentre Transformation event in Manchester last summer. It comes down to the ability to make at least 98% of the IT energy of a datacentre available for heat reuse with Immersed Computing technology. A datacentre on Immersed Computing technology is able to supply their surroundings hot water of up to 65 degrees Celsius. This element has caught the attraction of city officials and stakeholders within the energy and utility industry in Europe. Combine the heat reuse potential with other benefits Immersed Computing is offering, like the decrease of dependency on outdoor climate conditions, flexible deployment and the dramatic reduction of floorspace while offering high density ready infrastructure, and one can see the opportunities for circular energy concepts arise.

AsperitasEI will focus on circular energy projects and will continue to collaborate with Asperitas customers and partners. Dutch energy company Nuon (part of the international Vattenfall group) is one of these partners. Asperitas is also showing commitment to their mission by adding an element in their business model to bring heat reuse in practice with their customers. Asperitas is offering a 5% discount on sales of AIC24 Immersed Computing systems when customers commit to reuse the heat they will be generating or making the heat available for actual reuse by third parties. AsperitasEI is bringing resources to the table to work with customers and stakeholders, like energy companies and city officials, to increase the potential success rate of circular energy scenarios.

The circular energy potential of Immersed Computing lead Asperitas to be selected as a finalist of Accenture’s Innovation Awards within the circular economy category and the Piet de Jong Innovation Award for cleantech innovations in The Netherlands last year. Also they received a lot attention from the energy and utility industry in Europe, being selected as one of the most innovative startups by the largest annual European conference for the utility industry, the EU Utility Week, last October, just like Web Summit in Lisbon, the largest technology event of Europe.

Currently, the AsperitasEI activities will be developed under the responsibility of Maikel Bouricius, member of the management team and responsible for marketing. Bouricius is bringing his experience with datacentre and energy innovation projects from Green IT Amsterdam, the organisation he left to join Asperitas in 2017. “This is a logical next step for us to bring more focus to the activities related to heat reuse scenarios and energy innovation projects we are developing. Since our launch we have received a tremendous amount of interest from the energy industry for our technology. Immersed Computing enables the next step the datacentre industry has been talking about for years regarding datacentre sustainability: heat reuse.” said Bouricius about this new development.

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