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By Bill Lucia, Seattle Crosscut Some of the Seattle Steam Company’s equipment looks like scenery pulled from a factory-set in an old silent film. In the company’s two buildings on Western Avenue near Union Street, there are tangles of pipe, wall-clock-sized gauges, groaning boilers, foot-long wrenches and a fiery furnace incinerating wood pulp. Outside, a tall black smokestack […]

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By Taylor Soper, Geek Wire The City of Seattle is putting a new meaning to the word recycle. Plans are in the works for the city to take excess energy from data centers to power what’s called a district heating system. Essentially, Seattle wants to use heat generated at a centralized location and spice it up with some modern […]

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