• tal@lemmy.today
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    6 hours 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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    5 hours ago

    This is also a thing in Denmark.

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