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Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 29 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Selling hot air heated by wasting electricity in a data center.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I've thought about that, actually. Could you use waste heat from a datacenter to, say, heat water for a laundromat or something?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    We're currently using waste heat in Denmark from data centres (and other industry including power plants, CHP - Combined Heat & Power) in district heating. Heat up the water and pump it down pipes to people's homes.

    My home is for example heated up primarily by a cement factory, a CHP plant, and a waste incinerator.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You would think a laundromat would use waste heat from the dryers to heat their wash water (or even the room) but I've never seen that.

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