Heat Your House With A Server!

[KnightlyBackUps]

A pilot project in Holland, called Nerdalize, has modified server racks to release residue heat and act as central heating.

The main idea behind this is for a datacenter to have different server 'hubs' standing in living rooms of private owners, the computing power would still be used by the datacenter but the electricity (or any other energy source) used for heating in a house traditionally would be cut out, just like the additional costs for the datacenter to provide cooling solutions for their servers. The datacenter saves money and clients get free heating.

 

http://www.nerdalize.com/

 

[paprikman]

A pilot project in Holland, called Nerdalize, has modified server racks to release residue heat and act as central heating.

The main idea behind this is for a datacenter to have different server 'hubs' standing in living rooms of private owners, the computing power would still be used by the datacenter but the electricity (or any other energy source) used for heating in a house traditionally would be cut out, just like the additional costs for the datacenter to provide cooling solutions for their servers. The datacenter saves money and clients get free heating.

 

http://www.nerdalize.com/

So complicated. We use a simple nuclear reactors here, works just like a charm.

[Lingering]

Genius! It would encourage better internet too.

[daytdog]

So complicated. We use a simple nuclear reactors here, works just like a charm.

"Simple nuclear reactors"

[Jade]

If a single server is enough to heat your entire house than there's 2 potential problems.

 

1 - It shouldn't be drawing that much power.

2 - Your house is too small and you shouldn't be housing servers there in the first place.

[Misanthrope]

If a single server is enough to heat your entire house than there's 2 potential problems.

 

1 - It shouldn't be drawing that much power.

2 - Your house is too small and you shouldn't be housing servers there in the first place.

 

Modern servers with clusters of pcs on them actually use a lot of power because of the sheer amount of computing power on them. Think those bitcoin mining operations you've seen.

 

The main concern here is that a server that's good enough to provide moderate heating to a small house would be ​terribly loud

 

[Jade]

Modern servers with clusters of pcs on them actually use a lot of power because of the sheer amount of computing power on them. Think those bitcoin mining operations you've seen.

 

The main concern here is that a server that's good enough to provide moderate heating to a small house would be ​terribly loud

Even worse because it would echo through the vents. Point is, most people have no use for servers in their house (yes, you probably do; welcome to tech forums.) and it'd only drive up whatever power bill you have already. :\

[KnightlyBackUps]

If a single server is enough to heat your entire house than there's 2 potential problems.

 

1 - It shouldn't be drawing that much power.

2 - Your house is too small and you shouldn't be housing servers there in the first place.

They took care of that, if you watch the video on the website that I linked

[Jade]

They took care of that, if you watch the video on the website that I linked

Can't. Blocked here.

[Imakuni]

A pilot project in Holland, called Nerdalize, has modified server racks to release residue heat and act as central heating.

The main idea behind this is for a datacenter to have different server 'hubs' standing in living rooms of private owners, the computing power would still be used by the datacenter but the electricity (or any other energy source) used for heating in a house traditionally would be cut out, just like the additional costs for the datacenter to provide cooling solutions for their servers. The datacenter saves money and clients get free heating.

 

http://www.nerdalize.com/

I'd totally do it.....

 

 

.....if it wasn't for the fact that I live in a 30ºC home.

[Maslofski]

right, you wake up in the night just to let some engineers in to fix the server, great idea

[SIGSEGV]

Genius

[Misanthrope]

Even worse because it would echo through the vents. Point is, most people have no use for servers in their house (yes, you probably do; welcome to tech forums.) and it'd only drive up whatever power bill you have already. :\

Nope they pay you for it neglecting power costs:

 

The Nerdalize heater contains high-performance servers in the form of a radiator and allows for them to be placed in your home safely and secure. As Nerdalize covers the cost of electricity, the heat generated by computations, such as medical research, heat your home for free.

[Blackie Sheen]

the big problem I see with this is what happens when you dont want your house to get heated like in summer. It seems to me. I did not read the artcile so correct me if I am wrong

[Wyzzy Moon]

When I read this in the papers ( I live in holland ) my first reaction was: "cool so now I can steal CPU's from my radiator"
But seriously, does this mean people are going to steal radiators? because server equipment is worth a lot of money.

But the good thing is that you could just overclock your radiator in the winter  

[JAKEBAB]

K... but what if I'm hot?

[Tonylu1595]

Also this from Germany

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/250578-german-cloud-provider-will-heat-your-house-if-you-let-them-install-a-server/

[paprikman]

Modern servers with clusters of pcs on them actually use a lot of power because of the sheer amount of computing power on them. Think those bitcoin mining operations you've seen.

 

The main concern here is that a server that's good enough to provide moderate heating to a small house would be ​terribly loud

Yeah I've had 1 server stand at home, really loud. Had to move it to the data center (the price was just about I'd pay for the elecricity.

[Django]

I'd totally do it.....

 

 

.....if it wasn't for the fact that I live in a 30ºC home.

Right, 35ºC here. If only they came up with a system to offer free air conditioning.

[KnightlyBackUps]

But seriously, does this mean people are going to steal radiators? because server equipment is worth a lot of money.

 

Ja, het is niet dat je overal gespecialiseerd server materiaal kan verkopen zonder de nodige wenkbrauwen te laten fronsen

[Xirod]

Servers are loud because the surface they dissipate heat on is small so you need to push a lot of air through it to cool them down. Now imagine a heatsink size of a wall mounted radiator you don't even need ventilation imo the rising hot air will pull cold air through it so it cools down itself.

[Wyzzy Moon]

Ja, het is niet dat je overal gespecialiseerd server materiaal kan verkopen zonder de nodige wenkbrauwen te laten fronsen

Dat is waarschijnlijk waar ja, maar xeons uit je verwarming stelen zou mooi klinken

[TJStamp]

meh... the datacenter I work in uses waste heat to provide hot water to a nearby residential estate, it was a conditioning of getting permission to build another DC in the area.

[flibberdipper]

My Dell is enough to heat my closet up, so why not.

[Lmp]

Not too mention the power cost which I'd imagine is more than electric / gas / oil