Benjamin Ott is a research associate in the department Energy Efficiency at the Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use (IER, University of Stuttgart) and is research group leader waste heat and data centers. Mr. Ott researches in the field of energy efficiency and sustainability in data centres and industry. His special focus is the sector coupling between data centers and the heat sector via waste heat utilization. In the course of the Bytes2Heat project, initial results have already been published.