Engineered Systems Summary The numbers are hard to ignore. In Northern Virginia – already home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world – peak energy usage from those facilities hit an estimated 2.8 gigawatts in 2022. By 2038, the read more
Business Times Summary As the world warms, the demand for thermal resilience is skyrocketing. According to a joint report by the International Finance Corporation and the UN Environment Programme, read more
Helen Summary An excavator on the street and site fencing on the pavement are a familiar sight in Helsinki in summer. Maintenance of the district heating and cooling networks is scheduled for the read more
Zawya Summary Sustainability Forum Middle East (SFME), hosted a high-level roundtable on “Accelerating Energy Efficiency Delivery under Bahrain’s National Energy Strategy” at the Wyndham Grand Manama read more
GDN Online Summary Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) has secured a key contract to develop the second phase of Saudi Arabia's Jafurah cogeneration power plant, expanding its presence in the Middle read more
West Virginia Watch Summary Artificial intelligence data centers are arriving faster in Appalachia than the policies to manage them. In March, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that read more
ENR Summary Denver officials are exploring an infrastructure strategy that could offer a blueprint for retrofitting dense downtowns. The city is advancing a pilot project that will use geothermal read more
Energy News Live Summary UK universities are set for a £500m retrofit boost under a new financing deal between Lloyds Banking Group and the National Wealth Fund. The initiative will help universities read more
Canary Media Summary When a neighborhood-scale geothermal network came online in Framingham, Massachusetts, two years ago, it was hailed as groundbreaking. The first-of-its-kind system, owned read more
pv magazine Summary Researchers in China have proposed a novel method for storing surplus renewable energy by converting it into compressed air and integrating it into urban district heating pipelines. read more
urbanicity Summary As part of a substantial revitalization project on the former Stelco lands, Slate Asset Management is proposing Canada’s first publicly owned AI data centre with the primary read more
Irish Independent Summary The Government has been urged to “move rapidly” to make sure the 300,000 new homes planned for Ireland by 2030 can avail of district heating. The Irish District Energy Association read more
Natural Refrigerants Summary A panel of stakeholders ‒ representing German data center operators, energy utilities and municipality leadership ‒ shared insights into reusing data center waste heat read more
Forbes Summary Inside a pharmaceutical plant, heat is everywhere—and until recently, almost nobody was paying attention to it. Steam rising from boilers. High-temperature reactions turn raw inputs read more
The Energy Mix Summary While networked geothermal systems—which heat and cool several buildings using shared underground infrastructure and electric heat pumps—are gaining some traction in Canada, read more
Intelligent CIO Summary Once viewed as a secondary Nordic destination for digital infrastructure, a report by DC Byte says Finland has become one of Europe’s most strategically important data centre read more
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