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Tens of millions of dollars have been allocated for this The UK government has committed around $44.5 million to improve West London's central heating system. According to Datacenter Dynamics, this system will use the heat generated by data centers to heat up to 10 thousand homes. There was a scandal last year when it emerged that construction of new housing projects in the area had been halted because data centers had taken up all the available capacity at local substations. The Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) of the country's Ministry of Energy plans to use the funds to develop a system capable of using heat from data centers with a coolant temperature of +20 to +35 ° C. The project will be implemented by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), which is working on the development of the western region of the capital. Aecom will develop the heating network. Data centers in London will heat thousands of homes [caption id="attachment_78908" align="aligncenter" width="649"] Data centers[/caption] OPDC confirmed that active negotiations are currently underway with two data center campuses capable of collectively generating 98.7 GWh of heat. In this area of ​​London, Virtus, Ark Data Centres, Microsoft and Vantage have their own data center development projects, and all of them are at various stages of implementation. This project covers more than 9 thousand homes and 250 thousand square meters of commercial real estate. As part of the municipal Local Energy Accelerator (LEA) program, the project will also receive $495 thousand for technical consultations. The project organizers claim that the data centers provide a constant supply of “low-grade” heat that would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere. This heat will now be transferred through a network of plastic pipes to energy distribution centers, where heat pumps will raise the temperature of the water. This water will be supplied through regular steel pipes to new and existing homes. This project is the first of five green initiatives for which the GHNF intends to allocate a total of approximately $80 million.

The update is available for Windows and macOS In 2020, scientists decided to simply rework the alphanumeric characters they used to represent genes, rather than try to figure out the Excel function that interpreted their data as dates and automatically reformatted it. Recently, a member of the Excel team announced that the company is releasing an update for Windows and macOS. Excel's automatic conversions are designed to make entering certain types of frequently entered data, such as numbers and dates, easier and faster. But for scientists, this feature can corrupt input data, as a 2016 study found. [caption id="attachment_72975" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Microsoft Fixes Excel Function[/caption] Microsoft Fixes Excel Function That Was Breaking Scientific Data Microsoft detailed the update on its blog, adding an option in Settings to “Convert continuous letters and numbers to a date.” The update builds on the automatic data conversion settings the company added last year, which included Excel's ability to let you load a file without automatic conversion so you can be sure the feature won't mess anything up. Microsoft's blog has caveats - for example, Excel avoids conversion by storing data as text, which means the data may not work for further calculations. There is also a known issue where conversions cannot be disabled when running macros.