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Re:Install a server in your house, get free hot water! by tonymet on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:10PM (#34810619)
in eastern europe they pump hot water directly to homes . it’s waste water from nearby power stations . you could do the same from the data center to homes
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Re:Install a server in your house, get free hot water! by Symbiote on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:21PM (#34810742)
Facebook does exactly that in Odense, Denmark.

https://sustainability.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FB_...

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Re:Install a server in your house, get free hot water! by william_T on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:32PM (#34810867)
most datacenter's will recycle their water. Heat it up, send it somewhere else to cool down, send it back to heat up. Specific datacenters were called out on here last week for dumping heat waste water. The efficiency of moving hot water over long distances doesnt make much sense
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Re:Install a server in your house, get free hot water! by tonymet on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:27PM (#34824385)
my point is that it's commonly used e.g. in Finland & Russia, so someone has figured out how to get hot water from outside the city into the city and heat homes.
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