|
|
|
|
|
|
by graphene
3367 days ago
|
|
|
Yes, according to the first law of Thermodynamics, energy is conserved; regardless of whether there is computation being done, 100W of electric power will result in 100W of heat being dissipated. About heating with computers, There is a Dutch company doing this, https://cloud.nerdalize.com/. It's interesting to think about how their economics work, because the heaters will be switched off for large parts of the year, and for much of the day. They must be banking that computation won't get much cheaper over time (in terms of FLOPS/$) because otherwise it'd be hard to recoup their initial investment. In a sense, this almost looks like a bet against Moore's law! |
|
|