Wired reports Germany is loosening waste-heat rules for data centers and that Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse

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WIRED reported that the German government laid out a plan earlier this year to double the scale of the country's data center fleet and quadruple the amount of compute available for running artificial intelligence models by 2030. (Wired) Claims: kat-claim-e787c4ecf6da
WIRED reported that under an amended Energy Efficiency Act, which is to be put to the German parliament for ratification imminently, data center operators in Germany would no longer be obligated to reuse waste heat and would only have to scope out the possibility. (Wired) Claims: kat-claim-88161efcd67f
WIRED reported that in the last 18 months Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion data center facility in Hesse, Germany. (Wired) Claims: kat-claim-798a887ca07b

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