Switch Datacenters will cooperate intensively and proactively with the municipality of Diemen in order to deploy the green data heat from the new AMS4 data center as much as possible to accelerate and realize the energy transition and the sustainable ambitions of the municipality of Diemen. (Diemen gas-free in 2040)

In addition to proactively seeking to heat the municipality of Diemen with green heat on a large scale, Switch Datacenters intends to seek the same good cooperation with municipalities and heat and power companies at several other locations in the Netherlands, such as Greenport Aalsmeer/de Kwakel and Woerden, in order to jointly make plans to accelerate our national energy transition and to help solve grid congestion by cleverly and jointly planning heat networks, power capacity and data centers at locations where green heat is needed.

The green power used for the computers in a data center is massively converted into green heat in the data center and captured for reuse and can thus replace/prevent fossil-fired heat plants or possibly sub-optimal electric heat pumps.

Thus, instead of being a power consumer, a data center actually becomes a green electric heater for local fossil-free heat grids.

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