# As AI data centres guzzle energy, can their waste heat be put to use?

https://mins.news/en/item/134298

- Al Jazeera, 2026-11-08 08:17 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/11/8/as-ai-data-centres-guzzle-energy-can-we-harness-waste-heat?traffic_source=rss

> AI data centres are intensifying pressure on energy supplies. Engineers in Denmark have developed a liquid-cooling system that captures all the waste heat from the University of Southern Denmark’s Bitten supercomputer and feeds it into Sonderborg’s district heating network.

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