November 4, 2022 New report advocates using waste heat from data centers in district heating A new report from the Cool-Data project sheds light on the possibilities for utilizing flexibility and waste heat from data centers in Denmark.In a new report, Cool-Data provides a comprehensive review of the rules and incentives affecting the provision of flexibility and waste-heat recovery by data centers in Denmark as the European Union wants data centers to be connected to the surrounding district heating network to use the surplus heat.. We have asked the researchers, Juan Jesús Jerez Monsalves, Claire Bergaentzlé, Martijn Backer, and Dominik Franjo Dominkovic from DTU to answer five questions about how the research contributes to the EU's plan for data centers to be connected to the surrounding district heating in order to use the waste heat.The most important benefit is their location: they are usually located close to existing networks, greatly reducing potential network extension investments and transmission losses and thereby improving their waste heat's cost-competitiveness.Therefore, the economic feasibility of this type of project is determined by three main factors: electricity prices, heat pump investment costs, and connection to the district heating network (and its expansion).Potential changes in this methodology and the high electricity prices observed this year introduce substantial uncertainty on the ceiling value for the following years, increasing the risks for waste-heat recovery projects."