The industrial reconversion project of the former Bekaert in Figline Valdarno (Florence), the steel cord factory for reinforcing car tires that suddenly announced its closure and the layoff of 318 workers in 2018, is enriched with a zero-impact data center.
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That decommissioned plant was purchased in 2022 by a consortium of investors led by the Florentine Ge-Group, an engineering company founded by Federico Parma active in renewable energies, which developed a million-euro circular economy project, named H2-Era Green Valley, to produce green hydrogen, vertical farming, and fish farming. The authorization process was long and the work has not yet started.
But now H2-Era Green Valley adds another strategic piece to the project, signing a memorandum of understanding with Comtel, a Lombardy-based listed group and leader in ICT systems integration, for the development of what is defined as “the first data center conceived as an integral part of a zero-impact circular economy industrial ecosystem.”
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In practice, the 84-megawatt ground photovoltaic park planned by the H2 project – according to the promoters – will cover 100% of the energy needs of the future data center, ensuring self-sufficiency from clean sources. The excess energy produced will power an electrolysis plant for green hydrogen generation; the oxygen resulting from the electrolysis process will be used in a closed-cycle fish farm dedicated to salmon production; the waste heat generated by the data center will be recovered for the air conditioning of a vertical farm, further reducing the overall energy consumption of the production complex. Each activity, essentially, will enhance the resources generated by the others.
For now, the promoters do not provide information on the size of the data center, which will occupy between 15,000 and 25,000 square meters depending on the user (the agreement has not yet been signed), nor on the necessary investment.
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