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HeatQuota: Energy Credit Trading Platform
A government-regulated platform where data centers can buy or sell heat recovery credits based on their performance. Enforces compliance with heat recovery mandates and incentivizes further efficiency gains.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Data centers located in urban areas deliver waste heat to nearby buildings, acting as distributed heating systems.
Extrapolated from Let’s bend the curve - Letsbendthecurve.com

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