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At DCD>Connect 2023, our own Dan Loosemore welcomed Patty Solberg, senior advisor for the Solutions Innovation division of Engie to the stage for a DCD>Talk. Engie is a French multinational utilities business, currently focusing on the challenges of the transition to non-fossil fuels, and we took the opportunity to discuss how the explosion in energy demand from data centers is being addressed.
The concept of reusing heat from infrastructure is becoming common parlance, and has a myriad of use cases:
“We talk about data centers as a bit of a reverse power plant. Power plants take heat, and turn it into electricity. Data centers can take electricity and turn it into any heat with a side of compute. You're this huge heat generation resource."Engie is a district energy network operator, we offer district cooling and district heating networks, and we've had cases where we are integrating data center waste heat into some of our district energy networks. The Olympic swimming pool in Paris is going to be partially heated with data center waste heat reuse through one of our district heating networks.”
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