Climate laws for data centers mark political breakthrough for district heating
Until now, district heating has been relegated to footnotes in EU directives, but with the Fit for 55 bill district heating has attained a main role in things like forthcoming climate requirements for data centers. A political breakthough, says the Danish District Heating Association.
by VICTOR EMIL KRISTENSEN, translated by jonas sahl jørgensen
In the hot summer news drought of July, when the European Commission presented the Fit for 55 bill's 4,000 pages written in mysterious officialese, hardly anyone heard the supersonic boom of district heating breaking the political sound barrier in Brussels.
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