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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Here me out: a global computing cooperative –
Collectively owned servers and gaming PCs are run at max power wherever it's winter at the time, streaming the data to where it is needed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that's a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.

[–] ABasilPlant 3 points 5 days ago

Huh, I hadn't heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/

Interesting!

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