TIL that a small swimming pool in Exmouth UK, uses a data centre to heat it.
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I've seen the same principal used to heat houses. Wasting energy should be illegal.
This man is about to sue entropy out of existence
It's much more complicated than it seems
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.
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.
And how do you cool it in summer, when people don't need as much heat?
I hope there's a cutoff for it. I'm not sure they'd want much heating this time of year. Especially this one.
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.
Or a soup kitchen.