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Microsoft datacenter to heat homes in Finland

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That's the normal problem with these schemes.

Unless you are doing it for pure green-washing it massively increases the cost. You have to build the worst case cooling plant, to handle the full load in the hottest summer AND the infrastructure to move a lot of low grade heat to the community in winter.

You also have the maintenance problem that each of these systems is shut down for half the time.

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