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Christian Behler

Sep 10, 2021

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Using the Waste Heat of Computers

The heat produced by big data centers mostly goes to waste but could be used productively instead

An image of a bunch of servers in a data center. — Servers like this produce a lot of heat that mostly goes to waste at the moment. Photo by Science in HD on Unsplash.

A few days ago, the almighty YouTube algorithm recommended me this video by Matt Ferrell about computer waste heat recovery.

Data centers and computers around the world consume a significant amount of energy and produce…

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Christian Behler

M. Sc. Computer Science and Physics, Indie Game/Software/Web Developer, Writer, 3D Artist, and too many other interests. https://pingpoli.medium.com/membership

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