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The EU - and Germany in particular - has caused some consternation in the data center industry with plans to reduce the continent's environmental impact.
The union has set renewable energy targets across numerous industries to be achieved by 2035, which includes making the heating and cooling sectors carbon neutral by reusing waste heat from data centers to keep cities warm.
The EU claims(opens in new tab) that heating accounts for half of all energy demand on the continent, and 70% of that is produced using fossil fuels. This explains why it wants to push for district heating to recycle heat from industries such as data center sites.
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