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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home (www.wired.co.uk)
submitted 10 months ago by fer0n@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Since 2020, Meta’s hyperscale data center — spanning 50,000 square meters on an industrial estate on the edge of the city — has been pushing warm air generated by its servers into the district heating network under Odense. That heat is then dispersed through 100,000 households hooked up to the system, with Meta providing enough heat to cover roughly 11,000.

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[–] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Russia is another one big on central heating. I had to go there for work many times way before the war and their system was a nightmare. I was afraid I was going to freeze my ass off being in late-winter Moscow and instead, it was too hot everywhere. In the office they had to get a portable AC and in the house I stayed I turned down all the radiators in the room I slept and still had to sleep with the window slightly open.

Let's just say I'm definitely not some Nordic person, quite the opposite but their system was whacked.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You see, their system could be heaven (it's the same here). But we opt out for the lowest

Here the saying is, you feel cold, warm up. Not something Yanks take nicely haha