New video on waste heat recovery from renewable data centre for district heating - WEDISTRICT
This swedish demo site of the EU funded WEDISTRICT project aimed to recover the excess heat from a fuel cell powered data centre by liquid cooling technology.
The video “The Luleå demosite - Fuel cell powered data centre with waste heat recovery” has been be officially released on 15th August 2023 on the WEDISTRICT playlist of the YouTube ESCI channel.
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