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Manuscript-grounded blog posts on data centers as urban prosumers and as flexibility resources in continental net-zero energy systems.

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HeatingBits: turning data-center heat into an energy-system resource

A project article on the EPFL Solutions4Sustainability effort to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers through on-chip cooling, heat recovery, ORC generation, predictive control, PV and storage coordination, direct-current architectures, and campus-scale demonstration.

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Applied Energy, 402, 127049

From servers to services: modeling data centers as heat-active urban energy prosumers

This post follows the EPFL campus case study, including the REHO MILP framework, district-heating thermal buffering, two heat-recovery strategies, photovoltaic self-consumption, and workload flexibility.

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Cell Reports Sustainability, 3, 100755

Workload-flexible data centers reduce renewable curtailment in Europe’s net-zero energy system

This post summarizes the continental model of 2050 ICT electricity demand, recoverable cooling heat, near-optimal system designs, country-level distributional effects, and workload flexibility.

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Adding future works

A simple publication pipeline

Create a folder under posts/your-work-slug/, copy templates/new-work-post.qmd into it as index.qmd, and fill in the title, journal link, manuscript context, methods, results, limitations, and takeaway sections.

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