A couple from Essex in the United Kingdom are heating their home with a small data center in their garden, according to a BBC News report. The system, described as a “HeatHub” installed in a shed, has reduced owners Terrence and Lesley Bridges' energy bills to around £40 a month by diverting the heat from server workloads into a domestic hot water system.
The setup is part of a program from Thermify, which itself is part of the SHIELD project by UK Power Networks. The SHIELD Project aims to develop new ways for low-income households to transition to net-zero. According to Thermify’s CEO and co-founder, Travis Theune, the couple’s HeatHub installation will become part of a “remote and distributed” data center — just one of many units processing customer data.
