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Whether data center or industrial company: Many companies let their waste heat fizzle out unused. Hundreds of thousands of households could be heated with it. The federal government is therefore planning a partial delivery obligation.
For Ingmar Kohl it is a unique project in Germany. The department head of the utility Mainova is standing on a construction site in Frankfurt am Main and explains the principle: “The waste heat from the data center arrives at around 30 degrees and we then heat it up again to around 70 degrees with the help of two large heat pumps after.” The Telehouse data center is across the street, in the immediate vicinity of the construction site, where 1,300 new apartments are currently being built. The end of construction is planned for 2025.
The data center will later deliver 2,400 megawatt hours of heat per year to the houses via a pipeline, which would be 60 percent of the required demand in the new development area. The rest is covered by the normal district heating line in the city. Mainova and Telehouse have already signed the 15-year supply contract. The waste heat used – by the way, Telehouse makes it available free of charge – is also intended to help protect the climate. Compared to gas-powered heating, 400 tons of CO2 would be saved every year.
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