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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

There, you're out.

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

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.