Heating houses with high performance servers

Re:Heating houses with high performance servers by martin_bech on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:02PM (#13639662)

A distributed version of this will take place in Denmark, once Apples new datacenter is online. We have a distributed heating network in denmark, where excess heat is "sent" to homes connected with "fjernvarme" translated "remote heat". This new datacenter will dump its heat into the existing heating network and will heat x homes in the neighborhod.

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Re:Heating houses with high performance servers by mmcwilliams on Monday February 13, 2017 @07:46PM (#13640286)

I think this is a much more sensible and useful implementation, where the computation happens in a centralized location but the heat energy gets distributed. The linked solution requires CPUs to be distributed for the the heat energy to go with them. As many other commenters post, this creates many questions about data security.

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Re:Heating houses with high performance servers by Anansie on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:51AM (#13641974)

That system is not distributed, the system is centralized and the heat is distributed. We are a completely distributed system. This brings numerous economical advantages in terms of total investment required to roll out or scale up. We believe our way is superior to a heat network. Nonetheless the fact that the heat is reused can only be applauded.

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Re:Heating houses with high performance servers by easytiger on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:06PM (#13639702)

New York has had a consolidated heating system for over a century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

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Re:Heating houses with high performance servers by throwawayish on Monday February 13, 2017 @07:26PM (#13640193)

> fjernvarme

We Germans have that, too - Fernwärme :)

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