Could Servers Replace Household Boilers?

Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 27 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. The Data Furnace is a tiny data centre that could heat your house. Peter Judge is not immediately convinced What do we make of the proposal, from Microsoft Research, to heat homes using waste heat from tiny little micro data centres, or “data furnaces”? Like most people, our initial reaction is doubt, as even data centre critic Greenpeace admits that centralisation is more efficient. But the paper, written by staff from Microsoft Research and the University of Virginia, makes a good fist of working out the figures, and comes to the opposite conclusion, finding that the move could save the former data centre provider around $300 per server per year. (Read Full Article)

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