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One of these days I'm gonna pipe these bad boys into my homes duct work LMAO (lemmy.world)
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Here me out: a global computing cooperative –
Collectively owned servers and gaming PCs are run at max power wherever it's winter at the time, streaming the data to where it is needed.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There, you're out.

    That's a lot of bandwidth, but it sounds like a good idea.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Depends on your workload, pi digits calculation for example require a lot of compute, but the bandwidth required to communicate the result is trivial. Not saying every workload is the same, but compute to bandwidth relationship is not linear

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that's a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    So it sends data to/from a remote place? A place that's probably far away, kinda like those fluffy-looking things in the sky? May I suggest that you name your idea "cloud computing"?

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