It has been a serious subject in engineering for decades, it's only becoming more common because heat is becoming more expensive and polygeneration can now be used as for marketing
It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.
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Grimy@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 56d
I've seen the same principal used to heat houses. Wasting energy should be illegal.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 53d
This man is about to sue entropy out of existence
Jarme@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 54d
It's much more complicated than it seems
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 53d
90% of what humans have accomplished is more complicated than it seems. any programmer or engineer will confirm.
if this was a priority for the people in power, it would already be done.
Jarme@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 53d
It has been a serious subject in engineering for decades, it's only becoming more common because heat is becoming more expensive and polygeneration can now be used as for marketing
billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.
Jarme@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 53d
And how do you cool it in summer, when people don't need as much heat?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 56d
I hope there's a cutoff for it. I'm not sure they'd want much heating this time of year. Especially this one.
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 55d
They may have to pivot into being a sauna.
Edit: I realize now they were saying we’re in a heat wave, and not that the data center puts out so much heat it would boil the pool.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 55d
Or a soup kitchen.