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> During the winter time the GPU also doubles as a 300W in-house heater There could be a service that works in reverse where if someone needs a heater for a fe
by rpozarickij 19d ago
> During the winter time the GPU also doubles as a 300W in-house heater
There could be a service that works in reverse where if someone needs a heater for a few months, they could rent a portable server (e.g. using older repurposed GPUs) with a built-in 5G modem that would run inference on LLM queries. As an incentive perhaps renting itself could be free (or you could earn money?), but you'd still have to pay your electricity bill.
- HPsquared 19d agoI remember a company that sold or used bitcoin mining rigs as swimming pool heaters.
- teamonkey 19d agoThere was one that tried to sell them as free heating for the elderly.
- stymaar 19d agoI saw a company pitching almost exactly this on linkedin earlier this month. Except not as a portable heater but as your house's central heating system.
- hunter2_ 19d ago> you'd still have to pay your electricity bill. I should only have to pay 1/3 of what it adds to my bill, given that it's 1/3 as efficient as a heat pump. And that coefficient is to be adjusted as outside temp changes (assuming air source heat pump; water source would have a stable COP).