STOCKHOLM DATA PARKS
Erik Rylander , Head of Stockholm Data Parks and Open District Heating , explains how data centres may be the key to creating a sustainable digital city
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S tockholm Data Parks ( SDP ) represents an advanced infrastructure offering to the data centre industry ; a partnership between it , district heating / cooling provider Stockholm Exergi , electricity distributor Ellevio , dark fibre provider Stokab and the City of Stockholm . Collectively driven by a vision of creating a sustainable , waste-free city that ’ s entirely free of fossil fuels by 2040 , SDP ’ s contribution lies in the unique opportunity presented by the rapidly expanding data centre sector . Focused on making Stockholm as attractive to the industry as possible , the initiative believes that the waste heat expended by data centres may hold the key to making the city a beacon of sustainability .
Erik Rylander , Head of SDP , knows the energy sector well and put his insights to good use when the idea was first launched . “ My career has been a mixture of very different fields within energy and it has been mostly centred on heating and cooling , but also gas . With SDP , we really took the initiative to make the data center industry more sustainable .” Although heat recovery is now widely accepted by
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