Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

My next thought would be to find a use for the heat; colocate the data center with some other facility that needs massive quantities of heat. I remember something about a spa that heated its pools with computers (I think mining bitcoin, but still). I’ve also been curious if heat pumps could get hot enough to bake bread at industrial scales. Pump heat out of a data center and into a bigass bread oven?

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