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Heating with computers could help in winter

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Andreas Neuhaus
September 27, 2022

Computers are a heat source whose potential has yet to be tapped. The more data they process, the hotter they run. A home desktop PC may only produce enough thermal energy to warm up a small office, but there are data centers that have lots of potential.

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