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Harnessing waste heat from data centres 🏭 Do you ever wonder about the energy that powers your mid-afternoon social media scroll? Each action you take online generates data. And something has to process it. That something is a data centre. Data centres are notoriously energy-hungry. And thanks to the world’s hyper-focus on AI, data centre power requirements are set to skyrocket. As data centres gobble up all this energy, they produce excess, or waste heat. This leads to even higher energy needs – data centres require cooling systems to keep them operational. If we instead harnessed and redirected this excess heat for use in, say, heating buildings or powering industrial processes, we could drastically improve energy efficiency while also mitigating carbon emissions. But today, most of this heat is released, unused, into the environment. Luckily, startups are working to change that. 280 Earth l AirTrunk l Asperitas l Deep Green l EcoDataCenter l heata l HeatVentors l Hestiia l Iceotope Technologies Limited l Infinidium l LiquidStack l Luminescent l NovoPower l Qarnot l Submer l Verrus l VIRTUS Data Centres l ZutaCore Dive into the opportunities, challenges and data points in this week's trend report with thanks to Giancarlo De Lio of NovoPower for sharing his insights with us and for Meg Kendall for the overview: https://lnkd.in/ecbMwiaZ

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thanks for the mention!

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