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Microsoft is currently developing a dozen new data centres on three sites in Finland and has partnered with local district heating producers, such as utility Fortum, that will redistribute the waste heat from the data centres to heat homes.
Microsoft, which operates some 300 data centres globally and is investing about $80 billion more in them by the end of June, has a goal to become carbon negative by 2030, meaning it needs to find emission-free renewable power to be able to sustain the AI-driven expansion of its cloud-based data storage and usage.
Fortum, which will collect waste heat on two new Microsoft data centre sites in the Helsinki region, said the collaboration would allow it to cut emissions further towards its goal of reaching carbon neutrality in its district heating - or heat supplied and distributed from a central source - business in Finland by 2029.
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