The German federal government relaxes the mandatory requirement for waste heat recovery at data centers

The German federal government has relaxed the mandatory requirement for waste heat recovery at data centers. According to a Wired AI report, in June of this year the German government withdrew the mandatory clause in the 2023 Energy Efficiency Act requiring new data centers to recover waste heat, changing it to only requiring an assessment of feasibility. The report said the move responded to complaints from data center companies that the regulation made it nearly impossible to build plants in Germany. The report also mentioned that Germany originally planned to double data center scale and quadruple AI computing power by 2030, while EU member states must cut emissions by 55% before 2030; Stack Infrastructure has canceled a $3 billion project in Hesse, Germany, and Komm.ONE also withdrew from a Baden-Württemberg project due to the burden of the act. There are currently no further developments.

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1. Oct 21· 1 reports

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   Source:Wired AI