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   Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 22:02:58 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

   This actually is ingenious & quite useful. Although, I wonder how many companies will actually consider doing this‽

   https://www.techradar.com/news/tech-giants-data-centers-could-soon-be-warming-your-home

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     Andrew Baldwin (baldand@mstdn.thndl.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 22:16:53 JST Andrew Baldwin

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     @darnell Nokia's data center in Tampere does this also: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nokia-vlabs-data-center-in-tampere-finland-connects-to-district-heating/

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 22:17:34 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Andrew Baldwin

     @baldand That is very cool! Thanks for sharing!

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     Peter Bronez (peterbronez@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 22:52:01 JST Peter Bronez

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     • Andrew Baldwin

     @darnell @baldand I would like to do this with my #homelab

     Hotspot Energy makes a device that captures heat from HVAC for hot water heating. Capturing heat from computers is very much off-label but should be possible. See https://www.hotspotenergy.com/residential-heat-recovery-water-heaters/

     Linus did something similar to heat his pool: https://youtu.be/4ozYlgOuYis

     #solarpunk

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 00:08:34 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Dee Toher

     @DToher That is cool! I wish data centers in America were like this!

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     Dee Toher (dtoher@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 00:08:35 JST Dee Toher

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     @darnell to the best of my knowledge to be granted planning permission in Ireland, any new data centers need to been linked into district heating. The Amazon one near my folks heats apartments and local government buildings.