Waste heat from a server helps to heat Dublin

The World

A program in Dublin is heating municipal buildings, including a college, with waste heat from a cluster of computer servers run by Amazon. The World’s host Marco Werman tells how Dublin’s energy agency, Codema, built the city’s first district heating system, and how green heat is being adopted in some of the world’s northern cities.

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