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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by mtts on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:14AM (#35409756)
This was the promise originally but it turned out to be impossible. As it turns out, data center waste water is nowhere near warm enough to use for heating.
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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by cornholio on Sunday April 02, 2023 @12:26PM (#35412255)
It would work if you would put the server directly into the greenhouses, 25°C is cool enough for servers and warm enough for plants. But the expense of having moisture, bug and dirt resistant servers and technicians would far outweigh the energy efficiency.
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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by mtts on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:30PM (#35412952)
Hahaha - never thought of it that way. Given how dirt free a lot of modern greenhouse agriculture is, it could conceivably be done.
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Re:These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft by em-bee on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:09PM (#35413399)
if that works, why doesn't it work to put them next to each other and pump the warm air from the server into the greenhouse? would that already have to much loss?
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