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[–] superkret@feddit.org 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Here me out: a global computing cooperative –
Collectively owned servers and gaming PCs are run at max power wherever it's winter at the time, streaming the data to where it is needed.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There, you're out.

That's a lot of bandwidth, but it sounds like a good idea.

[–] ElCanut@jlai.lu 3 points 8 months ago

Depends on your workload, pi digits calculation for example require a lot of compute, but the bandwidth required to communicate the result is trivial. Not saying every workload is the same, but compute to bandwidth relationship is not linear

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that's a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.

[–] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Huh, I hadn't heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/

Interesting!

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 6 points 8 months ago

So it sends data to/from a remote place? A place that's probably far away, kinda like those fluffy-looking things in the sky? May I suggest that you name your idea "cloud computing"?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Lookup Folding @ Home or boinc. It's basically the same thing.