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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is an attic insulation issue. If your attic was insulated enough, you would have snow on the roof.

The heat transfer out the roof is dependent only on the indoor temperature, the outdoor temperature, and the attic's insulation. None of those parameters depend on whether or not you are running a server farm (unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels, and prevents the furnace from even running.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 64 points 3 days ago

unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels

Isn't that the joke?

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have never visited /r/homelab, right? There are people with home server farms that draw multiple kilowatts. That will absolutely heat up your room to unconformable levels unless you have ample air conditioning

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Multiple kilowatts is the equivalent of an iron, or a small space heater. Not that much in the grand scheme of things. Definitely not enough to heat a whole house to tropical temperatures. Maybe one room, but that's it.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago

Keep in mind that the author is German and most parts of Germany have pretty mild winters. It's extremely easy to melt the snow on your roof when the temperature is around the freezing point.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

a decent sized server farm absolutely could raise indoor temperature