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Title: New Datacenter In Italy Captures Heat Waste

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/06/26/...

Italian utility A2A and French tech firm Qarnot have launched a data center
in Brescia, Italy, that captures waste heat from servers and redirects it to
a local district heating system. "The Brescia project is expected to meet the
heating needs of more than 1,350 apartments and cut carbon dioxide emissions
by 3,500 tons annually -- equivalent to the absorption capacity of over
22,000 trees," reports Reuters. From the report: "The rapid spread of data
centers and the growing electrification of consumption require major
investments in power grids. But data centers also offer a remarkable
opportunity for cities with district heating networks," A2A CEO Renato
Mazzoncini said at the inauguration. "In (the Italian region of) Lombardy
alone, with projects already in the pipeline, we estimate that 150,000
apartments could be heated this way," Mazzoncini added.

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