A data centre is usually treated as a grid problem: a large, growing electricity load. In Finland it's becoming a heat asset.
Fortum has switched on two industrial heat pump plants that will recover waste heat from neighbouring data centres from next year.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/l...
Finnish energy company Fortum has switched on two industrial-scale heat pumps in southern Finland that will utilize excess heat from two local data centres belonging to Microsoft from next year. The c...