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Stupid Question: Why is the heat not used to generate power through heat exchanging devices and turbines? Or at least for heating the water of nearby town by long distance heating? Wouldnt that be a pretty obvious synergy?
Two of the big reasons:
The efficiency of power generation from heat increases with a larger temperature difference.
Turbines operate via high pressure steam, not just hot water.
So ya there's a lot of heat given off but it's not "high quality" heat because it isn't hot enough. And if you ran the data center hotter it would destroy the gpus.