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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on January 10, 2023, 04:02:02 PM

Title: Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers
Post by: rcjordan on January 10, 2023, 04:02:02 PM


https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/09/qarnot-creates-green-data-centers-by-putting-servers-in-central-heating-boilers/
Title: Re: Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers
Post by: ergophobe on January 10, 2023, 10:15:52 PM
Neat. I've never seen computing capacity quoted in watts, but it makes sense. The interesting part, or at least the part that hadn't occurred to me as possible/scalable, is how decentralized it all is. They must have some strong tech behind the scenes.

The one thing I wonder about is the physical security of the servers. At a big server farm, you would have things like backup generators, security guards and all that. But a server room at a heated municipal swimming pool?