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I saw on TV a long time ago that a funeral home's "energy" (burning bodies) was used to heat homes somewhere in Europe. We can just use data centers for heati

I saw on TV a long time ago that a funeral home's "energy" (burning bodies) was used to heat homes somewhere in Europe. We can just use data centers for heating too...maybe turn around all these protests against them

josefritzishere 2mo ago
If wishes were fishes.
9dev 2mo ago
There's lots of district heating in Germany for example, but it's usually fed from either big heat pumps, bio mass plants, or heat from waste incineration plants. There's no reason to not use excess heat from data centres too - I'm pretty sure I read that already being done in several places. But in some cases, a data centre might be too remotely located, or the infrastructure is too lacking to make it economically feasible, which still leaves me wondering why you couldn't try to recuperate at least some of it as electricity on-site...
- Symbiote 2mo ago
  > I'm pretty sure I read that already being done in several places. Presumably you read this very recently, since it's mentioned at the end of the article.
SilasX 2mo ago
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
- gruez 2mo ago
  Doesn't "tanks" imply some sort of composting operation, rather than burning bodies?
  - SilasX 2mo ago
    Yes, it's not an identical situation, but I thought it was relevant because of the concept of recovering a dead body's resources for consumption by the remaining living humans.