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[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that's a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.

[โ€“] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Huh, I hadn't heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/

Interesting!