As announced a few weeks ago during the Grand Prix of Innovation, the festival which honours innovation and ideas for a sustainable future organized by CCI France Italie and Bpifrance, A2A is entering a strategic partnership with Qarnot, the first company in the world to use the heat produced by computer processors.
Through this partnership, Qarnot will be able to implement its advanced data centre infrastructure in Lombardy, playing a fundamental role in the generation of renewable heat and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of processing operations. At the same time, we at A2A have the opportunity to get involved for the first time in the recovery of heat which would otherwise be dispersed by data centres.
At the awards event, Luca Rigoni, managing director of A2A Heat and Services, underlined the importance of this collaboration, which reinforces our commitment to the decarbonization of our district heating system and, thanks to the fusion of our technology with that of Qarnot, we fully embrace the concept of circular economy.