As the effects of global warming continue to worsen, Amazon is doing its small part to counter the damage by using recycled heat for its new Seattle campus.
GeekWire tech reporter Jacob Demmitt explained to HuffPost Live's Josh Zepps on Monday that the campus -- slated for completion in 2017 -- is located next to the Westin Building Exchange, one of the largest Internet data centers in the country. The heat given off by the 34 stories of data servers will go toward warming the nearly 4-million square feet of Amazon office space.
"[The data center] used to take that heat up to the roof and release it into the atmosphere," Demmitt said. "Now, instead they're going to take that heat, kind of capture it in water, pump it underground to Amazon's office towers and then use the heat to actually warm the office towers where their workers are working."
Using the recycled energy will reportedly save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of kilowatts of energy each year. The first of the four office towers on the Seattle campus opens this week, Demmitt said.
"They're calling these some of the greenest buildings around right now because ... in the winter months when it gets cold and it takes a lot of energy to warm up those massive buildings, Amazon will literally be heated with the internet," Demmitt said.
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