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xg15
21 days ago
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The biggest heat pumps
A bit OT, but since this article also mentions district heating: Are there any efforts to attach any of the recently built AI data centers (and their power plants) to district heating networks?
holri
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In Vienna, a hospital is heated by a neighboring data center using a heat pump, while the hospital cools the data center.
https://www.wienenergie.at/blog/fernwaerme-zukunft/#Abw%C3%A...
jimmaswell
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If we all went full-in on nuclear we could use resistive heat and air cool datacenters all day with no concern for the cost. It's a shame.
dzhiurgis
20 days ago
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We couldn't since all the capacity would go to AI, not to your home heating.
AndrewDucker
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Except that nuclear power is extremely expensive.
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