Why Waste Servers' Heat?

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 23, 2011 @01:29AM from the because-heat-makes-us-murderous dept.

mikejuk writes "A new paper from Microsoft Research (PDF) suggests a radical but slightly mad scheme for dealing with some of the more basic problems of the data center. Rather than build server farms that produce a lot of waste heat, why not have distributed Data Furnaces, that heat home and offices at the same time as providing cloud computing? This is a serious suggestion and they provide facts and figures to make it all seem viable. So when it gets cold all you have to do is turn up the number crunching ..."

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Re:Not new. by Midnight+Thunder · 2011-07-23 02:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Some of them are cold inspite of the actual temperature ;)

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Re:Not new. by ozmanjusri · 2011-07-23 03:05 · Score: 1, Funny

servers shrink over time. Every new generation is both smaller and more power-effiecent,

This is Microsoft research remember.
Their bloated OSs have kept chip designers busy building faster, more complex CPUs for decades.

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