You kids get off my lan! ;-)
PFFT! I’ve got an air-cooled gaming rig, a stack of network switches, and a stack of NAS and server devices in my office that keep the temperature at a comfortable 83 around the clock. This isn’t new. Enthusiasts are used to their homemade heaters.
Unless someone else is paying for the electricity to run these computers, the heat isn’t “free” by any stretch of the imagination. Also, during the summer months, you’ll have to pay extra to cool the room because these ‘heaters’ are always running, or there isn’t much point in them.
Does it make hot cocoa?
Free? Hardly. It’s an electric heater allowing consumers to donating power consumption and bandwidth to the shrewd seller. No thanks.
This sort of thing is hardly new. I heated half my house with my cryptocurrency mining rig two winters back. (Basically a large desktop computer with 4 of the most expensive graphics cards you could buy mounted on it, with a 20” box fan aimed at it point blank.) Made money and saved money at the same time since that was when propane prices were skyrocketing in our area.
If this guy knows as much about computing as he does about electricity, I wouldn’t trust him to send an email. the amount of heat energy flowing into a home through the internet isn’t enough to warm a gnat’s ear hair. All of the heat energy in computing comes through the electrical outlet, paid for by the homeowner. Electric heat is one of the most costly ways to heat your home, equivalent in cost to about $5.00 per gallon gasoline.
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