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With gasoline shortages looming, we may have to prepare for a fourth cold season. But now the digital association Bitkom is coming around the corner with a surprising study: Computer heat!
Using waste heat from data centers would not only reduce reliance on Russian gas, Bitkom explained. The energy balance of rapidly growing data centers can also be improved in this way. Until now, most of the emission-free thermal energy from data centers has been released into the environment unused.
Prerequisite for the project: the direct connection of data centers to public and private district heating networks. And therein lies the problem: According to Bitkom, the necessary infrastructure is often lacking.
Therefore, additional investments are necessary. The waste heat temperature is usually just below the temperature of district heating networks and therefore needs to be slightly increased with the help of heat pumps. Therefore, Bitkom requires that the use of heat pumps in combination with the use of waste heat be exempt from network charges.
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