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In the public discourse, data centers have largely been cast as the villains of the AI boom—voracious consumers of natural resources that power our chatbots but threaten our climate progress. But in fact, there are clear, actionable ways we can design, build, and operate data centers that align with both our climate goals and societal values.
We can push the envelope further by recycling the massive amounts of heat generated by data centers and using it to heat buildings. This is already the case in West London, where the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation is recovering 17 megawatts of waste heat generated by local data centers to warm up to 10,000 homes and businesses; in Norway, they’re using it to heat a trout farm. By thinking more holistically about how data centers are built and operated, we can also make them more beneficial to the communities that host them and to the planet as a whole.
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