Data Center in Iceland seen with an Infrared Drone Camera

40 Comments

1. Maybe build housing or greenhouses on top of data centres…free public district heating 😉

2. Any chance Iceland can bake bread with this heat source?

3. I design data center cooling for a living so this is very fascinating to see in Iceland! I also loved my time visiting Iceland so this is a treat

4. Could it be possible to make an IR-footage of the
   Þeistareykir Geothermal Area in North-Iceland 😉😇😉……Takk fyrir Gylfi!

5. The roofs are on FIRE ;-))

6. Looking at the heat flow from those vents (?) one can infer the wind direction during filming. Gorgeous imagery Gylfi.

7. All our 1s and 0s keeping the Icelandic countryside warm 😀

8. Way cool, thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️

9. The heat from the magma is transferred to the water…the water turns to steam……the steam drives a turbine…..the turbine creates electricity….the electricity is sent to the server farm where it does stuff and returns to heat. The first law of thermodynamics wins again.

10. Data Centre Guy: Oh noes! Gylfi is uploading another one of his thermal drone videos… reactor is going critical!!

11. I’d like to see shots of people.

12. Put a stirling engine on that roof, stat!

13. Now I understand – thanks to your drone – why such a kind of data centre is also known as 'server farm'.

14. But we would rather see what we know shouldn't really be hot! ❤

15. This video inspired me to do a bit of research about Iceland's Data Centers … I learned something new today. Thank you for the inspiration.

16. Would it be possibility to add a colour scale so we get an idea which temperature corresponds to which colour?

17. Iceland is getting popular for data centers because of the cheap energy AND a low enough ambient temperature so that ventilation by itself is good enough (without the energy wasted by aircon/heat pumping). There are lots of deep sea optical fiber cables connecting Iceland with the rest of the world.

18. Wow, this generates a lot of heat. It seems this makes a crucial data center very visible for enemy spies.

19. So much information, so easy to see. Some of the vents are less hot than others and some aren’t putting out detectable heat at all. This thermal drone is amazing in what it can do. Thank you for showing us. I wonder what the people running that facility think of this.

20. Can you add a heat graphy to the side of your videos, this would help in indentifying the coloras to there relevant tempurature

21. Cool, hm no, hot! 😅 👍

22. It’s quite shocking just how much power is used in a data Center , not only the processing but , the cooling too, uses even more power.❤

23. I can't wait to see the winter shots you're drone will get. It seems to see really good.

24. Wow!

25. It’s sad that all this heat goes straight in the air. Built a Greenhouse there an plant vegetables…

26. Interesting imagery, but I like to see if your drone can see any spots on the ground? Any new possible eruptions?

27. Where is this data center located?

28. are the roofs really that hot or is is the heated being vented up and it just looks like the roofs are hot? Or do the vents not really move the heat away from the building? Seems like the heat would rising up instead of laying on the roof.

29. Interesting, what type of data center is this? I would assume Bitcoin mining?

30. wow … this is daytime … imagine what it's like at night when the Huldufólk are out and about … !

31. It appears that they could get extra income as a power plant. 😉😁

32. Thank you!
    Information is Energy and Energy is Information…

33. Maybe you could put in a little graph to show which color is what temperature

34. never tire of seeing this

35. Thanks Gylfi! This is fascinating. We all sense your enthusiasm with your new drone. Also, thanks for all the information you have provided in the description. We can't wait to go back to Iceland later this year!

36. More on Hakarl please😁

37. what is the make and model of the drone?

38. Nice one. It shows what this IR imaging can be used for: did you notice that on the roof of the 2 seperate long buildings some of the fans are broken? 4 or 5 of them are cold, while the rest are warm. But I assume they have noticed that also without thermal imaging.
    However its a good example.

39. Gives new meaning to the slang expressions of “hot topics”….😂..!

40. Is it possible to map the color to a temperature?

Comments are closed.