Cloud Computing: Dutch Companies Look to Heat Homes With Servers
March 28, 2015
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
An energy company and a technology startup in the Netherlands are the latest companies to test whether housing servers in residences can help families reduce their heating costs as the systems run their workloads.
Eneco is installing radiator-size servers that the energy company is calling eRadiators in five homes in the country. The servers, built by 2-year-old Nerdalize, will be part of the system maker’s compute cloud. While the servers are churning away, the heat they generate will be used by Eneco to heat the homes…
The companies expect that the program will reduce the compute costs for Nerdalize customers by 30 percent to 55 percent, while bringing enough free heat to the homes to reportedly shave more than $400 off the families’ energy bills. Officials with Nerdalize, which was founded in 2013, said there are three key benefits: Sustainable computing power becomes more affordable, emissions are greatly reduced and homes are heated for free…
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