Fact-check: “In Denmark, data centers are recycling their used water to provide heat for residents.”
Verdict: Mostly True (78% confidence)
Danish data centers are genuinely supplying heat to residential district heating networks — Meta's Odense facility heats roughly 11,000 households, and Microsoft's Høje-Taastrup project targets ~6,000 more — so the core claim is well-documented. The wording 'recycling their used water' is a loose but reasonable lay description of how the system works: district heating water is circulated through the data center's cooling units, picks up server heat, and returns to a heat pump facility before fl…
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