Environment & local impact
The subjects our engineers deal with on major projects in energy, industry and infrastructure: design, works, energy, grids, regulation, innovation. Analysis and lessons learned, written by the people who live them.
Electrifying a factory: what decarbonisation changes on the electrical side
To decarbonise a factory, the first step is to replace fossil fuels with electricity. On paper, it is a change of energy. On site, it is a new electrical project: power multiplied, a customer substation to rethink, a grid connection to negotiate, power quality to control.
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Waste heat: how data centers are becoming district heating plants
All the electricity a data center uses ends up as heat. Today in France, almost all of that heat is released into the air. A new obligation and the arrival of liquid cooling could turn it into a resource for heating homes, swimming pools or greenhouses.
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Data centers and the environment: water, land and local acceptance
As projects grow, opposition is spreading. Farmland, water, rejected heat, electricity, local benefits: data centers have become a subject of public debate in France, as in the United States. Understanding these criticisms is now essential for a project to succeed.
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