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Oh no! Big tech company bought out my barely functioning, small, energy inefficient AI business! Whatever will I do with these wads of cash!
Boil an ocean or two trying to cool their LLM farms? https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/
Such a waste.. all that heat could be used for something.
How’s a data center going to use a lot of hot air? Maybe they could use specialized heat pumps to condense it even more and spin some turbines, but the efficiency would be extremely low and probably not worth the investment. Best option is probably to just heat a few adjacent buildings in the winter.
No I mean if stuff like this was built in better locations the waste heat could be used by .. another company or to warm homes..
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t think it’s easy to deliver such low density heat in a useful way. Large datacenters are located away from residential land because they can be unpleasant to live near, and while businesses could be close by, what industries can utilize a huge volume of ~100 degree air?
Heat is heat, "low density large volume" or whatever, they've successfully used it in cold climate locations to heat residential homes already.