On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo teofilowiki@gmail.com wrote:
How about moving the servers (5) from Florida to a cold country (Alaska, Canada, Finland, Russia) so that they can be used to heat offices or homes ? It might not be unrealistic as one may read such things as "the solution was to provide nearby homes with our waste heat" (6).
I don't think that's a practical solution. It's not because they need to be cooled that computers cost so much energy - rather the opposite: they use much energy, and because energy cannot be created or destroyed, this energy has to go out some way - and that way is heat.