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From their site: Heat your home with cloud servers!

The CloudBox contains powerful servers, used by companies and researchers for their computations. The produced heat is used to heat up the water in your home. You get free hot water and save on your gas bill. And you contribute to an enormous reduction of CO2 emissions!

I think that’s a really nice concept!

[0] https://www.nerdalize.com/heating/

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Imagine how great it would be if we lived in a society where our homes were easily hooked up with internet fast enough to run servers from home? Must be nice.

How fast would it need to be? Would a Google fiber style 1Gb up and down connection be plenty for a single rack of servers?

But then what about your own use?

If it was a workload like bitcoin it would not need a fast connection at all. You could ship it with a copy of the Blockchain and it would download the delta after you turn it on.

I think it will be pretty limited usage too considering if you want it to access database on the same local network.

This will be more useful for computationally heavy usages with minimal data transfers.

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