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New startup: Convert your empty office into a data center. Boom

• toast0 3y ago
  Data centers are going to need way more power and cooling than offices. It's not uncommon to have a few floors of data center in an office building, but it might be hard to convert all the floors. Also, most of the megacorps running their own datacenters are looking for locations with inexpensive power, inexpensive space, and the potential of outside air cooling. London can do outside air cooling some of the year, but not all of it, and doesn't offer inexpensive space or power as far as I know.
  • ge96 3y ago
    Take this fantasy a step further. Take the waste heat to speed up processing of dirty water, mean while cooling the servers with that grey water mmm. I appreciate entertaining the thought. Seems like "hey? people need house ng, here are empty spaces..." yeah, not my own thought.