Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud

judgecorp writes The idea of re-using waste server heat is not new, but German firm Cloud&Heat seems to have developed it further than most. For a flat installation fee, the company will install a rack of servers in your office, with its own power and Internet connection. Cloud&Heat then pays the bills and you get the heat. As well as Heat customers, the firm wants Cloud customers, who can buy a standard OpenStack-based cloud compute and storage service on the web. The company guarantees that data is encrypted and held within Germany — at any one of its Heat customers' premises. In principle, it's a way to build a data center with no real estate, by turning its waste heat into an asset. A similar deal is promised by French firm Qarnot.

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Outsourcing

[ericloewe]

After outsourcing their heating, they can double down and outsource their IT to the cloud, which will run on their on-premises servers.

All of the costs, none of the advantages, but an MBA feels real smart, which really brings a smile to everyone's faces.

Germans Can Get Free Heating From my Butt

[Anonymous Coward]

God I love the cloud to butt plugin, it never fails to amuse.