Data centers are becoming heating plants. Waste heat from AI workloads is being captured and redirected into district heating networks, transforming a byproduct into a revenue stream. This episode examines heat recovery projects across Europe and the business case for integrating heat recovery into new builds.

Key topics covered:

• Microsoft-Fortum partnership serving 250,000 people in Finland
• Google's Hamina data center supplying 80% of district heating
• AWS Dublin providing 92% of campus heating demand
• Equinix Paris heating 1,000 homes from server waste heat
• 3-year payback on heat recovery infrastructure

Related keywords: data center heat recovery, district heating data centers, waste heat reuse, Microsoft Fortum Finland, ESG data centers, heat exchangers data centers

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