Google has revealed plans to collaborate with a local Finnish energy company to utilize waste heat from its data center for regional heating. Previously, Google had been reusing this waste heat internally, but with the expansion of the data center, it will now be provided externally, covering an estimated 80% of the region’s annual heating demand. The project is being developed at the Hamina data center, located about 150 km east of Finland’s capital, Helsinki. However, due to the need to enhance AI computing power, Google will invest 1 billion euros (approximately 170 billion yen) to expand the scale of … Continue reading Google’s Data Center Heat Recovery to Warm 80% of Finnish Homes by 2025