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AI Is Heating the Olympic Pool
A data center in Paris has been hooked up to the energy system heating the Olympic pool. But critics call projects recycling data centers’ excess heat as a distraction from the real environmental costs of AI.
For the past month, the data center has turned its hot air waste into water and piped it to a local energy system run by French utility company Engie. In June, mayor of Seine-Saint-Denis, Mathieu Hanotin, also called attention to the environmental benefits, claiming that using the data center as an energy source will spare the region 1,800 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. Recently, projects capturing and reusing heat to warm homes, offices or universities have sprung up across the region, as data centers face increasing pressure to help the European Union meet ambitious environmental targets, such as reducing emissions by 55 percent by 2030, says Simon Hinterholzer, researcher at Germany’s Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability.
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