Like they could cool their shit, and desalinate water with the waste heat. Provide water to dry areas. Like Baja or Texas. Bonus points if they could run off renewables. Seems like a win win

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    The boiling method is used when there are industrial processes that generate a lot of waste heat. You can make it reasonably efficient by taking the heat away on the cooling side and recirculating it back to the hot end.

    But yes, datacenters don’t really generate enough heat for that to work without heat pumps concentrating it. All your other points stand.