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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home (www.wired.co.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by fer0n@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Since 2020, Meta’s hyperscale data center — spanning 50,000 square meters on an industrial estate on the edge of the city — has been pushing warm air generated by its servers into the district heating network under Odense. That heat is then dispersed through 100,000 households hooked up to the system, with Meta providing enough heat to cover roughly 11,000.

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Instead of the HVAC system cooling already warm air made from the servers, you would partition the lab from the rest of the house and HVAC system, and then install a heat pump for just the room.

The heat exchange would take care of the lab, and the HVAC system would have to circulate less hot air through the system.