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Waste supercomputer heat and old mines could warm homes

A first-of-its-kind system in the UK is being trialled in Edinburgh to see if waste heat from a large computing facility can be stored in disused mine workings and used to warm homes.

 Water used for cooling a Scottish university’s supercomputer could soon be fed into disused mine tunnels and then used to heat domestic homes

Water used for cooling a Scottish university’s supercomputer could soon be fed into disused mine tunnels and then used to heat domestic homes

The large amounts of energy needed to power the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) could be recycled to heat at least 5000 households in Scotland's capital. The facility, home...

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