Swiss data centre used to heat homes | Geneva-based Infomaniak has inaugurated a new type of data centre that aims to heat 6,000 homes using heat generated by the facility’s computer servers.

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1. Great idea, but only when it’s cold outside…

2. Now let’s do that with parkings.

3. DigitalRealty already do this in Glattbrugg. It’s a neat idea for waste heat.

4. I mean sure, good to at least use the heat, but using electricity to heat has never been the gold standard of energy efficiency, it only makes sense when you have a surplus of clean electricity. And if that’s what makes it “unique”, basically every data center I’ve seen does this already.

5. Nice to know that a couple of my crappy websites are at least helping to keep some people warm this winter.

6. I wonder how much of that energy consumption is wasted for pointless AI language models…

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