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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home (www.wired.co.uk)

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Since 2020, Meta’s hyperscale data center — spanning 50,000 square meters on an industrial estate on the edge of the city — has been pushing warm air generated by its servers into the district heating network under Odense. That heat is then dispersed through 100,000 households hooked up to the system, with Meta providing enough heat to cover roughly 11,000.

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[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

This is actually a law in Denmark, so it's something Facebook had to do.

Any new data centers build on Danish ground need to be hooked up to the central heating system, providing heat to the community.

Perfect use of resources.

[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually, the whole of Facebook shutting down and removing Zuckerberg would be better use of resources.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"Perfect use of resources" might be overstating it a bit.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

They took a waste product and used it to heat homes, sounds responsible and efficient.

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