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Many European countries are using existing technologies to heat homes due to worries about pollution and a reliance on foreign nations for energy sources. Many of the largest technology companies’ data centres are already located on the continent, and they need a significant amount of electricity to keep servers and hot computers cool.
The immense heat produced as a by-product of storing our expanding data bank is normally dissipated by air conditioning systems or cooling towers, resulting in heat loss. However, an increasing number of data centres are increasingly warming homes and other structures with the surplus heat.
Since 2020, Meta has been recovering extra heat from its Odense data centre for use in Denmark. By the end of the following year, the company intends to be able to heat the equivalent of 11,000 households. Similar plans have already been made by Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, and Alphabet has committed to looking into the prospects.
With another 15 planned, district heating systems are now connected to ten Dutch data centres, distributing the extra heat to local residences and structures. There are many advantages to using data centres to heat homes. Fossil fuels, which are frequently used to heat homes in Europe, are less frequently used as a result.
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