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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

10,000 London homes to be warmed using waste heat from computers in UK-first

Ten thousand homes in London will be the first in the UK to be warmed using waste heat generated by computer data centres.

A £36 million package of government support announced on Friday will see a heat network created, that will warm 9,000 homes and 250,000m2 of commercial space that are being built at the Old Oak West development in north-west London.

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