How can we minimise the energy waste from data centres? This week, Technology Now explores a potential avenue to harness a large untapped source of energy: excess heat. How much of a problem is the excess heat in the world? How much do data centres actually contribute to the problem? What, if anything, can we do to combat this? Malte Matthies, Business Development Lead for Modular Data Center – at Hewlett Packard Enterprise tells us more.
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https://www.danfoss.com/en/about-danfoss/news/cf/excess-heat-is-world-s-largest-untapped-source-of-energy/
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