Waste Heat Rethought: This Is How Homes Are Heated in Finland

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Data centers generate a huge amount of heat, which is mostly wasted. Recognizing the waste, Finland is integrating the heat generated by computer processing facilities into some of the country's district heating systems, so that when someone takes a shower or turns up the heat, for example, the heat generated by ChatGpt is utilized.

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Artificial intelligence does not only produce answers: it also generates heat. And in Finland, this heat, which comes from computer servers running day and night, is no longer lost. It is recovered, recycled, and used to heat entire housing. In Helsinki, this unique energy model already allows thousands of households to heat up without paying anything, while reducing the carbon footprint of digital technology. A concrete innovation, at a time wh…