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The synchronisation of the grid in ukraine with the european — western european grid — partially happened also in our supply areas, so we were on the ground affected by it. the second effect is that we had to basically change all the processes that we had established because the absolute unprecedented volatility and also the huge price level meant that obviously also we were challenged. we had, you know, we had to provide billions of additional working capital to just continue to procure the energy which was rising by a factor of 10 to 20 on the electricity and gas side. here in the uk, e....

To power our digital world. now, you may not know this, but e.0n, it's one of europe's biggest energy companies, it's heavily involved in supplying green energy to the tech world and at the forefront of new innovations, it's capturing waste heat from sizzling servers to warm our homes. so, i caught up with the big boss. leonhard birenbaum, a real pleasure having you on my show, and thanks for your time. i know you like to go by leo, so that's what i'll use. and leo, on the show this week, we've been looking at the mighty rise of data centres around the world as our lives arejust going more and...

Population and the population growth and globalisation which is driving it, it's also new technology like chatgtp uses three times the energy consumption of a google search. now, how do we do it? what do we do about it? number one, we need to make all data centres always more energy efficient. and the data centre operators are doing that. and number two, we need to make sure that we use the waste energy out of such data centres — for example, for heating in the neighbourhood. and this is what we as e.0n are doing on a large scale. for example, as we just inaugurated a data centre in stockhol...

To a certain extent, yes, but obviously, in the end, you know, it's still energy consumption because it reduces really the total energy demand. yes, it can help to heat a city but it still means you need to produce energy first somewhere. leo, the war on ukraine has resulted in an unprecedented increase in our energy prices — something many of our viewers are really struggling with. just tell us what that's meant for e.0n and how did you adapt as a company to the massive supply and demand changes? yeah, first, it's horrific. what has it meant to us? first, we have been personally affected. e...

We send, you know, liquid water cooling straight onto the board and actually into the chipsets that sit within the it. and that means that we're not cooling by blowing air over racks of it but we're actually, you know, removing the heat through water that gets circulated around the, you know, the chips themselves. that has dramatic increasing energy efficiency by applying that technology. well, on that point, gary aitkenhead from equinix, a real pleasure having you on the show. good luck with everything and i'll check in with you soon. my pleasure. thanks very much. good talking with you. so, ...