Waste Heat From Disney Data Centre Warms District

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1. Disney has provided a peak “behind the magic”, at least in how its data centres will turn heat into energy Disneyland Paris is partnering with French energy provider Dalkia to showcase a green way to turn waste heat from its data centres into heating and hot water at a business park. Dalkia revealed that it will soon open its first district heating network in the Val d’Europe business park in Marne-la-Vallée near Paris. A BBC video of the building of the greenfield business park, which is mostly reportedly owned by Eurodisney, the operator of Disneyland Paris, can be found here. This district-wide heating network will be fuelled by energy recovered from a 8,000 square metre data centre on the site. (Read Full Article)

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