It has been a serious subject in engineering for decades, it’s only becoming more common because heat is becoming more expensive and polygeneration can now be used as for marketing
It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.
It’s much more complicated than it seems
90% of what humans have accomplished is more complicated than it seems. any programmer or engineer will confirm.
if this was a priority for the people in power, it would already be done.
It has been a serious subject in engineering for decades, it’s only becoming more common because heat is becoming more expensive and polygeneration can now be used as for marketing
It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.
And how do you cool it in summer, when people don’t need as much heat?