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ThermoScore: Building Heat Rating System
A mandatory rating system for buildings, assessing their efficiency and reliance on data center waste heat. High ThermoScores unlock benefits (tax breaks, priority access), encouraging uptake and penalizing high-energy users.

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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