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Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

There are some data centres in the UK that use the waste heat to heat the local swimming pool. Seems a good idea, we need compute and we need heat, why not do both at once?

Surely it's not too much of a stretch to have datacentres contributing to local district heating systems either?