Google's new Bay View campus is being built at full steam, and like other structures for big tech companies - such as the newly opened Apple Park - many things in it will embrace sustainable energy sources, setting aside fossil fuels that Besides being more expensive and exhaustible, they emit a large amount of pollutants into the atmosphere.

Among the most energy-intensive systems in a large building are heating and cooling, crucial for the comfort of those who work inside and even the operation of technological devices such as large servers. To save on petroleum-based fuels and avoid excessive electricity consumption, Google's new campus will adopt a system of geothermal heat pumps that serve to cool or heat the environment with ground energy.

The pipe reaches 25 meters deep

Heat from the depths

In winter, when we need to heat the buildings, we will absorb this heat from the ground, and then in the summer, when we are cooling the buildings, we will dissipate the heat to the ground and heat the ground.

Using pipes that are inserted up to 25 meters deep into the earth, the system takes advantage of the constant ground temperature of about 18 ° C to absorb or dissipate heat, and even excess heat can be stored inside the system. Direct floor establishment to be used to heat another location.

"In winter, when we need to heat buildings, we will absorb this heat from the ground, and then in summer, when we are cooling buildings, we will dissipate heat to the ground and heat the ground, " said Eric Solrain of Integral Group, an engineering company that works with Google on this project.

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Fully sustainable

Using geothermal heat pumps will completely prevent the use of natural gas and will dramatically reduce Google's carbon footprint. Renewable electricity generation systems will also be used to light the company's new campus, just as it did in previous ones.

“The next challenge we will all face is water, ” said Asim Tahir, a project executive with Google Real Estate and Workplace Services. “We have to be aware of how we design our projects, ” he concluded. .