Comment on Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian

smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There are some data centres in the UK that use the waste heat to heat the local swimming pool. Seems a good idea, we need compute and we need heat, why not do both at once?

Surely it’s not too much of a stretch to have datacentres contributing to local district heating systems either?

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