Power-Hungry Data Centers Are Warming Homes in Nordic Countries

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When Finnish engineer Ari Kurvi takes a hot shower or turns up the thermostat in his apartment, he’s tapping into waste heat generated by a 75-megawatt data center 5 kilometers away.

  Cats had figured out this “make use of waste computing heat” stuff long before humans had.

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• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is also a thing in Denmark.

  It’s required by law to even build a data center.

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