cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 3 days agoOne of these days I'm gonna pipe these bad boys into my homes duct work LMAOlemmy.worldimagemessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down13
arrow-up1604arrow-down1imageOne of these days I'm gonna pipe these bad boys into my homes duct work LMAOlemmy.worldcm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 days agoHere 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.
minus-squareInputZero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoLookup Folding @ Home or boinc. It’s basically the same thing.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoThere, you’re out. That’s a lot of bandwidth, but it sounds like a good idea.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoI mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that’s a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.
minus-squareA Basil Plant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoHuh, 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!
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.
Lookup Folding @ Home or boinc. It’s basically the same thing.
There, you’re out.
That’s a lot of bandwidth, but it sounds like a good idea.
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.
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!