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European data center firm Virtus has started construction on a new campus in Berlin, Germany.
Plans for Virtus Berlin 1 were announced in May 2023 . DATA2HEAT, a joint venture of Investa Real Estate and GASAG Group subsidiary GASAG Solution Plus, will make the data center’s waste heat usable and feed it into a heating network. At full build-out, the campus has the potential to supply around 5,000 households with sustainable local heating.
Georg Friedrichs, CEO of GASAG, added: “In the GASAG Group, we are strongly committed to the use of waste heat from data centers. In Berlin, we make it visible how digitalization and warmth can go hand ...