DCD
Summary
Circular economy is all about a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design. Unlike in today’s linear economy, in a circular economy we see everything as a resource for something else – waste doesn’t exist.
Within the EU we produce more than 2.5 billion tons of waste every year. Until now we have lived with linear production models, in other words, we extract, produce, consume, and discard. The society in which we live means that the pace of consumption is accelerating, a model that is fast but unsustainable for the planet.
It can benefit the local economy by encouraging production models based on the reuse of nearby waste as raw material. One good example is to reuse excess heat in district heating systems, where the data center becomes a contributor and not only a consumer of energy.
Calculations state that with a well-designed solution we can reuse up to 90 percent of the energy we put into the data center and send it back as warm water to the district heating network. That’s a circular economy at its best.
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