Yep, we’re working close to guys from Energy Machines company, they do solutions exacrly like that - use heat from one part of the building in another one, no matter, data center or something else.
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Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 year agoHeat pumps can be used to move heat around in a building. If the data center is directly adjacent to housing, this would be trivial to implement efficiently. The same system cooling the data center would be heating homes.
In the summer though, you’d have to push that heat to atmosphere, so this only helps in colder climates
toofpic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Proximity is a huge issue. I’ve worked at a dozen or so datacenters over the years, and none are all that close to residential areas…l
Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 year ago
I’ve been inside of data centers that are in an otherwise normal office building. Hospitals and stuff too. This could be a useful technology.