# District heating: Using data centers to heat communities | All Things Distributed

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## What Jamie wrote

Data centers create a lot of heat, and that heat can captured and used productively. Strategic placement of data centers to use wind or water power and redirect the heat waste to productive use is a big deal. There are clear ways to offset the carbon produced by even very large data centers.

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