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i wonder if any big data centers do something similar to heat nearby cities?


I'm sure there's a few -- the technical term you want is "district heating". I.e.,

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024952673_amazonheat...

    "Partnering with other companies, Amazon will use waste heat
    from a data center in a Seattle skyscraper to warm its
    soaring new Denny Triangle campus across the street."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/20/helsinki-...

    Helsinki data centre to heat homes
    
    "A mini revolution in eco-friendly computing is taking place
    in the depths of the 19th-century Orthodox Uspenski
    Cathedral in downtown Helsinki."
    
    "The Finnish IT company Academica has installed a new 2MW
    database server centre in an empty second world war bomb
    shelter meant to protect city officials in the event of a
    Russian attack. Water warmed while cooling the servers will
    go on to provide heat for 500 homes or 1,000 flats in a city
    that often suffers winters of -20C. After the heat is
    extracted, the water will be recycled back to cool the
    servers again."




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