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Not when it is replacing gas heat, as it likely is!

• jupp0r 4y ago
  That would make it neutral not negative, but only if it was powered fully by renewables which were constructed and operated in a fully carbon neutral way.
  • mike_hock 4y ago
    It could be that electrical district heating has a lower carbon footprint than gas heating (if the electricity is sufficiently low-carbon). Still doesn't make it "carbon-negative," just kills two birds with one stone by using the same energy both for heating and computing.
    • ravi-delia 4y ago
      I see what you're saying with this, but the comparison isn't a world where electricity is used for the heating, it's one where gas is (gas heating is almost always more efficient than electric heating, since you lose a lot of heat at the generator). So either the heat is radiated out into the atmosphere uselessly, and some amount of natural gas is burned, or the heat is used and 20% less natural gas is burned. That's a carbon footprint of -20%.