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Microsoft is set to construct a new data centre region in Finland that will also be used to heat local homes, businesses, and services.
The tech giant is collaborating with local utility provider Fortum to capture the excess heat generated by the new data centre region. Fortum will then transfer the clean heat from the server cooling process to homes, services, and business premises that are connected to its district heating system.
The companies claimed that the waste heat recycling concept from the data centre region will be the largest of its kind in the world.
District heating, the most popular method of heating premises in Finland, is infrastructure that generates and captures heat and distributes it to buildings on a large scale. Heat is transferred in hot water that is pumped through pre-insulated underground pipes.
The process makes use of Fortum’s existing district heating infrastructure, the second largest in the country, for heat capture and distribution. This includes around 900 kilometres of underground pipes that transfer heat to approximately 250,000 customers in the cities of Espoo and Kauniainen and the municipality of Kirkkonummi.
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