Captures low-grade server exhaust heat and feeds it into a municipal district-heating loop, warming homes and civic buildings instead of venting it to the sky.
| Climate | Coldapplicable | Temperateapplicable | Aridnot applicable | Tropicalnot applicable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water stress | Lowapplicable | Mediumapplicable | Highapplicable | |
| Land context | Greenfieldapplicable | Degradedapplicable | Brownfieldapplicable | Urbanapplicable |
| Community scale | Ruralnot applicable | Townapplicable | Metroapplicable |
0–5 illustrative weighting of how this intervention builds each capital. Illustrative Example.
Verified operating project(s), externally cited.
Meta Odense ~100 GWh/yr, up to ~11k homes; Google Hamina ~80% of town demand free; Stockholm free-cooling-for-heat
| Figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Heat delivered | ~100,000 MWh/yrhigh conf. | Odense heat recovery · 2022 (citation) |
| Homes served (expanded) | ~11,000medium conf. | Odense heat recovery · 2022 (citation) |
Meta’s Odense hyperscale campus routes surplus server heat into the Fjernvarme Fyn district network; Denmark abolished the surplus-heat tax in 2022 to unlock the model.
How it maps hereThe anchor OPERATING case for cold/temperate heat offtake; drives the SYN-HEAT synergy in the modeler.
| Figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Heat plant capacity | 7.5 MWmedium conf. | Hamina heat recovery · 2024 (citation) |
| Share of town heat demand | ~80%medium conf. | Hamina heat recovery · 2024 (citation) |
| Carbon-free energy match | 97% CFEmedium conf. | Hamina CFE · 2024 (citation) |
Google supplies recovered heat to the Hamina district network free of charge, covering roughly 80% of town demand while the site runs at ~97% hourly carbon-free energy.
How it maps hereShows the offtake pairing with hourly CFE (E16) — a two-item SYN-HEAT + clean-power story.
| Figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments heated | ~30,000medium conf. | Open District Heating (citation) |
Under Open District Heating the utility pays data centers for recovered heat and installs the heat pumps, turning free-cooling into a revenue stream for the operator.
How it maps hereDemonstrates the utility-pays commercial structure that makes E1 financially positive.
This precedent is announced, not operating — figures below are planned or illustrative, not delivered results.
| Figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Regional heat share (planned) | ~40%medium conf. | Espoo heat recovery · 2022 (citation) |
A planned Microsoft/Fortum project to supply ~40% of the Espoo region’s heat from a new data center campus.
How it maps hereANNOUNCED, not operating — flagged so the site never presents projected capacity as delivered.
Running these together in the Place Planner unlocks a synergy multiplier — each strengthens the others.
Illustrative model. The Regen Data Center is an educational reference model. Figures shown are either externally cited or tagged as illustrative examples; interactive outputs are illustrative and not offers, financial advice, or guarantees. Operating, announced, and proposal precedents are labeled distinctly throughout. Nothing here recognizes, certifies, or constitutes a VLAS-verified asset.
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