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In the next ten years, the UK will experience a major digital infrastructure shift as installed datacentre capacity is rapidly expanded.
The government’s commitment to datacentres is now taking precedence over other elements of the industrial transition. For example, a planned green hydrogen project in Teesside has been set aside in favour of a large datacentre.
Many places have integrated data centres into heat networks. Heat exchangers transfer the waste heat to district heat networks in large population centres, where each connected dwelling features a boiler-sized heat interface unit (HIU) that transfers the supplied hot water into its space and water heating systems. Some of the best examples of this in action are to be found in the Nordic countries, where every available source of waste heat is utilised to help endue bitter winters.
Google’s Hamina data centre in Finland, for example, provides for 80% of the annual heat demand of the town via the local district heating network.
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