Geopolitical tensions, markets and pubLic policy are combining to create a business climate that is pushing district systems in Europe to harvest energy from data centers with waste heat to spare. "All of a sudden, the business case for a heat network fueled by residual heat is much more interesting than a couple of years ago," Stijn Grove, managing director of the Dutch Data Center Association, told The Wall Street Journal in a recent article describing the shift. The Journal named Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) as private-sector players in an emerging trend that has established district energy systems looking at data centers as viable heat sources.
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