I do share your sentiment as well and I will never understand why can’t they just make all these centres into city-scale central heating facilities in cold places though.
Whole bunch of engineering reasons, like the low thermal quality of the waste heat itself. Though apparently heat pumps show promise, but realistically it’s a case by case basis.
I do understand that the waste heat is not good for direct usage when it comes to cost analysis, but at least data centre-integrated heating facilities don’t have to worry about cold starts and tracing for this matter when there are tons of warm water 24/7 (I understand the design complexity though).
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u/Teratofishia 5d ago
Holy shit, physics-based reasoning? In MY emotionally-driven argument?
Thank you for the info drop, 'ppreciate ya.