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Equinix is to connect to a new district heating scheme in Frankfurt, Germany.
The colocation firm has announced a new partnership with housing company Vonovia, engineering firm AS Enterprise Engineering, and investment advisor and asset manager EB-SIM to build a heating network in the north of Frankfurt Griesheim.
From 2025, around 1,000 households are to be supplied cost-neutrally with excess heat generated by local Equinix data centers. A total of three locations (FR4, FR6, and FR8) are set to be connected to the heat exchanger.
Jens-Peter Feidner, managing director for Germany at Equinix, said: “This project demonstrates how data centers can give back to their local community and is a perfect example of the benefits that can be achieved through collaboration between governments, investors, city planners, housing associations, heat network, and data center operators arise.”
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