The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.
Can they capture that heat and recycle it to partially power the site?
They could use it to provide energy for the residents in closer proximity to it (in winter)
That’s what some are already doing.
In Germany I heard about an indoor swimming pool using datacenter heat energy to heat their pools.
Not really, it’s only useful if you intentionally capture it at the point of heat and Transfer that in a liquid still hot to take it a central point, by the time the fans cool of and the heat is pumped out the building it’s too dispersed to use. Unless you’re in a cold area and low grade heat can be used for warming.
Why don’t we just invent an entropy reversing machine?
Lol I admire your courage to even think reversing the second law of thermodynamics.