On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo <teofilow...@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, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
