UK government reveals £90m plan to warm homes with data center waste heat, with 750,000 homes getting cheaper…
- £90 million is being allocated toward using excess heat from UK data centers
- In London, around 650,000 homes will receive cut-price heating via a “mega heat project”
- The project is described as delivering “clean heat” to London
The UK government plans to heat around 750,000 homes as part of a new £90 million project that will include supplying hot water heated by data centers. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is funding the building of new heat networks and improving existing infrastructure to pipe hot water from data centers across parts of London, including under the Thames.
The initiative is part of a national project to reduce heating bills, with London, Manchester, Newport and Abergavenny in Wales, Solihull in the Midlands, and Bradford in Yorkshire all benefitting. Similar waste-heat projects have been running in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Berlin for several decades.
In London alone, 650,000 homes...
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