Waste Heat Reuse
Discussions center on capturing and repurposing waste heat from servers, data centers, and computing processes into electricity, heating, or other uses, while addressing thermodynamic limitations like temperature gradients and entropy.
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is there a way to harness this heat for reusable energy?
Surely they can make use of the heat output at least?
It's a shame we can't convert that heat to electricity in some efficient way.
Doesn't the electromotor also produce excess heat that can be used in a similar way?
Couldn't the heat also be used to generate more electricity?
You don't get those gigajoules of heat waste back at the end
Heat isn't equal to heat. Server farms produce relatively low temperature heat, which is almost useless.Look up entropy and thermodynamics for more background.
I agree. Is there any work on capturing and using that heat?
If it's cold outside, the waste heat is basically a space heater.
Wind energy maybe. I would imagine heat is only useful if you have a temperature gradient somewhere.