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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home (www.wired.co.uk)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Wish this kind of joined up thinking happened in places other than the Nordics.

Data centres and industry exist and dump heat all over the world. Putting it to use is a no brainer.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is actually a law in Denmark, so it's something Facebook had to do.

Any new data centers build on Danish ground need to be hooked up to the central heating system, providing heat to the community.

Perfect use of resources.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

"Perfect use of resources" might be overstating it a bit.