[Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

[Andre Engels]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about moving the servers (5) from Florida to a cold country
> (Alaska, Canada, Finland, Russia) so that they can be used to heat
> offices or homes ? It might not be unrealistic as one may read such
> things as "the solution was to provide nearby homes with our waste
> heat" (6).

I don't think that's a practical solution. It's not because they need
to be cooled that computers cost so much energy - rather the opposite:
they use much energy, and because energy cannot be created or
destroyed, this energy has to go out some way - and that way is heat.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com