Stockholm is heating residents' homes with the excesses created by data centres. The Stockholm Data Parks partnership is incentivising businesses to move their data centres to the city with a cheap, carbon-positive solution to their need to cool the centres, which heat up as they're used. Currently, data centres use about 3% of the global electricity supply and account for 2% of global warming, giving them the same carbon footprint as the airline industry.

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