Good and Green

The energy consumption of servers have been problematic for some time now.

Our buddies at #Leafcloud are showing us how they use the thermal energy generated by their servers, to provide heat to everything from swimming-pools to large residential complexes. Using this energy as a resource rather than wasting it.

https://thegood.cloud/en/articles#the-good-journal-8-its-not-easy-being-green-but-it-is-undeniably-important

#AI #datacenters #sustainable #thegoodcloud #green

@lyssachiavari Yes! I love this so much... I've seen something like this going in the UK, and it's exactly the kind of sustainability thinking we need. But without that excusing a huge ramp-up in energy usage at the same time. It's a paradox... a Jevons paradox to be specific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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Jevons paradox - Wikipedia

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Duh.
Integrating district scale thermal resources and balancing cooling and heating loads with heat pumps and storage.