So it's eco friendly because... checks notes... someone else is paying the electricity bill? I don't think that's how things work...
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Its eco-friendly because the waste heat is being used to heat the home methane isnt being burnt to provide that heat. Data centres are needed unless you want to scrap the internet entirely.
It halves the power needed. Instead of pumping heat out into the air, and using separate power to heat a house, it used the heat to heat the house. Sounds pretty eco to me.
It looks like they also installed a solar and battery array too so some of the electricity will be coming from there. I can imagine it will be getting more expensive getting into winter with the short days though.
What I don't understand is what the Pis are doing at the moment to get hot as they say that they don't have any clients to do any work yet? So presumably they must be doing aimless processing to get hot at the moment.
You would've thought that it could be made more efficient by centralising these into hubs and piping the waste heat in the community as an array of Raspberry Pis doesn't sound great.
What would happen if they run out of things to process or, the inverse, have too much demand for processing and no demand for heat in the summer?
So does the existing radiator network in the house just have hot oil coursing through it now?