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How a Texas Factory Is Cooling Data Centers with Waste Heat
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising industrial innovation: a factory in Texas that captures waste heat from its own processes and uses it to power an adjacent data center's cooling system. We break down the technology—a specialized absorption chiller that turns 250-degree Fahrenheit exhaust into chilled water—and the economics: the factory saves $1.2 million a year on energy costs, while the data center cuts its power usage for cooling by 40 percent. We discuss the partnership between a traditional manufacturing plant and a…
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