Comment on What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home

4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s all fun and games until you get raided by some very disappointed DEA agents.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s okay. They found a roach in the basement so you’re going away for 3-5.

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• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you live in an environment that gets hot in the summer time you may think about getting a heat pump for your home. That much heat energy being generated in the summer would be great for your energy bill. Instead of battling the heat generated by your lab with AC it would actually be used to create a more efficient heat energy exchange for the pump.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you elaborate on how creating heat in summer time helps save money on cooling your home?

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    • Kethal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Heat pumps are great, but what this guy is saying is wrong. Generating heat when you’re trying to cool won’t help save any money no matter the technology.

      Let’s say you were deliberately trying to heat something and cool something else, like a water heater and your home. Then heat pumps are doubly effective. Maybe that’s where the confusion in this comment stems from, but that’s not what’s going on with a data center.

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      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Generating heat in the thing you’re trying to cool won’t help save any money no matter the technology.

        I should have been more specific, the savings would be from compartmentalizing the hot room from the rest of the HVAC system.

        If you partition the lab from the rest of the hvac system and install a heat pump for the lab, it would drastically reduce the amount of heated air the HVAC system has to cool and move around the rest of the home.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Instead of the HVAC system cooling already warm air made from the servers, you would partition the lab from the rest of the house and HVAC system, and then install a heat pump for just the room.

      The heat exchange would take care of the lab, and the HVAC system would have to circulate less hot air through the system.

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  • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, was mostly making a joke but would be pretty cool. I’ll bet there’s some way I could figure out how to use the waste heat to offset the water heater or something.

    Hmm, liquid cooled… now you have me thinking :).

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