OK... so data centres are all in the news at the moment.
Putting aside their current use case (more AI ensloppificiation) I see two major issues being talked about:
* the amount of power they consume;
* the amount of heat they generate (and the need for water for cooling).
Now, it's been a very long time since high school science (and the Wikipedia article on the Rankine cycle is too technical for me) but surely there should be some way of extracting the heat energy from the cooling water? It won't be able to power itself from its own heat (I know enough physics to know why that can't happen) but surely there would be a way of running a little power plant to supplement what they suck from the national grid? I mean, if my old Belmont could run its heater off the radiator coolant surely there have been advances in applied thermodynamics in the 55 years since it was built?
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