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Waste heat: the overlooked energy problem, and how to solve it
With the exponential increase in the number of data centres and electronic devices over the last decade, waste heat has become a big but overlooked environmental problem. It is frequently hidden away, out of sight in data centres and server farms in remote locations around the world, but its environmental cost is very real. Anastasiya Ernays-Eskarsa explains.