• allinadazework - Wednesday, June 13, 2018 4:30 AM

    I assume that this is in fact a case of saving energy in terms of energy used in cooling. So it's not a case of heat being wasted, but energy being saved on cooling which has to be direct. Energy that could otherwise have been used to heat a greenhouse perhaps. I don't know this, but I'm guessing that the energy saved in cooling must be substantial enough to outweigh the risks of burial at sea!

    Cooling power is substantial. When we used to rent space for SSC, cooling was charged for first. We got power limitations first, then cooling charge, then charge by power.

    It would be better to have this heat used elsewhere, though I don't know how feasible this is. It's not likely to boil water, but perhaps greenhouse or something else. However, that doesn't necessarily help the data center survive, since it needs some cooling as well as heat dump.