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As AI drives a massive expansion of data centers, one of the biggest opportunities is not just building more power generation — it’s capturing the enormous amount of energy we already waste, especially heat.
The energy transition will depend on both large-scale supply and a fast, often invisible layer—efficiency, thermal recovery. Moving fast and smart – as an efficiency first strategy enables – is the winner as compared to the more cumbersome and costly conventional approach.
Data centers turn much of their electricity into heat that is usually rejected into the atmosphere. Instead, that heat can be captured and reused for:
- heating nearby buildings
- district energy networks
- industrial processes
- other thermal applications
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