MILAN – Roberto Tasca, the president of Italian energy group A2a, has stated that guaranteeing competitiveness and confronting global challenges requires a concrete call to action and a systemic approach to create public-private alliances. These cross-sector partnerships, he argued, are essential to multiply opportunities for the industrial sector and guide its transitions, both in Italy and across Europe.
“Businesses have the opportunity and the responsibility to govern the transformative processes affecting the territories in which they operate,” Tasca stated. He pointed to data centers as a concrete example, describing them as strategic facilities whose growth can turn digitalization into a shared resource, provided it is guided by a clear vision. “Italy ranks 13th globally in this sector, with Milan and Lombardy positioning themselves among the emerging areas at a European level,” Tasca added at the opening of a forum organized with Assolombarda.
The event, titled ‘Competitiveness and New Global Challenges: Clean Industrial Deal, Strategic Autonomy and Tariffs,’ is being held at the industrial association’s headquarters in Milan. Tasca also highlighted the significant concentration of power connection requests in Lombardy, noting that data centers can contribute to urban decarbonization. “By recovering the heat they generate, it is possible to provide thermal energy to over 800,000 families via district heating networks. This is a solution we have already tested in Brescia and will soon implement in Milan,” the A2a president concluded.
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