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The Climate-Tech Startup Turning Data-Center Heat Into City Warmth
Instead of venting waste heat into the sky, this company pipes it into homes — and just closed a major round to scale.
Ada Okonkwo
Senior AI Correspondent
Jun 18, 2026 2 min read 8,434
Waste into warmth
Data centers generate enormous amounts of heat — heat that's usually thrown away. This startup captures it and feeds it into district heating networks.
Why now
Rising energy costs and tightening climate rules have turned a clever idea into an urgent business. The latest round will fund deployments across several cities.
The vision
"Every data center is a power plant we've been ignoring," the founder says. "We're just connecting the pipes."
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