free? Pff. Build a bitcoin mining farm in your garage and get PAID to heat the rest of the house.
The server farm should go in the basement. Heat rises and all that.
That would be a significant investment for hardware. And then you need to cool it in the hot weather. But if you are running a server farm anyway, you might as well use the heat.
I have a cannabis heating system. Each 1000 watt light generates around 3500 BTUs. A flower room only runs for 12 hours, so you need two flower rooms if you want 24 hour heat.
Guess when I grew pot (medical, approved by Colorado, by law, but not licensed), and where? (Haven’t grown it in a while due to other priorities.) I pumped the exhaust into my heating fresh air return after carbon filtering.
I brought up when because in the summer, heating your basement isn’t exactly the plan. In spring and autumn, I brought in more outside air and in winter, more “dining room” air.
My grow currently is in the basement and exhausts outside, after a carbon scrub. Also I only currently run one flower room at night.
It’s almost time for me to switch the exhaust around so it vents into the first floor. I do a carbon scrub, then dehumidify, then exhauste into the living area… I have 6 registers in the first floor, 3 for intake, 3 for exhaust.
I have a couple heat recovery ventilators, but I haven’t installed them yet. That should allow me to exchange air from outside, but not dump all the heat.
Ideally I want to grow mostly in a greenhouse or outdoors in the summer and fall, then mostly indoor growing in winter and spring.
That’s one thing about Colorado. I run two humidifiers. Have never needed a dehumidifier.
As for the greenhouse, I’m with you. If I had more time and we didn’t have such hideous soil (guess that’s a similar problem in the northeast) I’d probably have started building an earthship as a greenhouse by now. I’ve used those temporary POS greenhouses to get an extra three or four weeks on the season, but they suck too much. I think with an earthship, Colorado might be ideal. My uncle digs basements. I might still entertain the idea, but it probably wouldn’t be where I currently live.
I assume they pay for the electricity? lol…
They? You mean the owners of Ryzen PRO? I would think so.
I’ve wondered how that works. Same with the network connection, but the network connection is negligible compared to the electric power cost.
Cooling is a significant cost for a data center. So I guess they save money on that. And the cost of having a data center. Hopefully they hardly ever have to do onsite service calls.
Run a data center in your basement all winner and get a check from Google. 