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That's an excellent point. It's amazing how fast it'll heat up a room!
I just learned there's a company that takes advantage of this by using render farm nodes to provide hot water or something?
https://www.heata.co/render
Genius idea. Render farm as space heater. Don't see why compiling / transcoding would be any different. ๐
I'm definitely gonna have to wait until next winter. It's foolishness to be running the GPU that hard when it's 100โฐF+ outside!
In a few French cities they use the heat from data centers to heat up public pools