Data Centers Heat should be marketed.

[Arthur Hanson]

Data centers generate large amounts of waste heat and should be located where there is a market for it, especially with rapidly rising energy prices. Any thoughts on how this could be accomplished?

 

[DaRAGingLunatic]

Build data centres in frozen tundras and build large warehouses nearby the house animals or grow indoor vegetables, or even large fish tanks... I don't know mate....

 

[coldsolder215]

I know graphene is technological catnip soaked in snake oil, but recent manufacturing advancements have made for some very cool research on its application as a thermoelectric generator. Membranes are packaged with the chips and vibrate with increasing temperature, magically turning heat into an AC current source which can be harvested by a simple boost converter.

 

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I know graphene is technological catnip soaked in snake oil, but recent manufacturing advancements have made for some very cool research on its application as a thermoelectric generator. Membranes are packaged with the chips and vibrate with increasing temperature, magically turning heat into an AC current source which can be harvested by a simple boost converter.

Yeah um.... there's still thermodynamics which limits the amount of energy you can extract from heat difference between two temperatures. (Carnot's Law)