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> This wouldn't make the room any cooler, though

I feel like that might be embedding some questionable assumptions, such as:

1. That CPU computing work completed is directly proportional to joules of heat emitted.

2. That stymied active cooling measures don't themselves generate heat, such as all the fan motors spinning at 100% and the AC/DC conversion to power them.

3. That even if performance was improved by removing thermal-throttling, demand would still push everything to run at full-tilt rather than allowing some machines to idle.