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Server as heating device - how do I do this? (self.diy)

submitted 5 months ago by schmorpel to c/diy

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So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?

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[–] poVoq 1 points 5 months ago

You could probably mod a water cooler system to connect to a water to water heat exchanger like this: https://www.heata.co/

In general, like others have said, lots of humidity is bad for the hardware, you will need to separate this somehow. But heating a small grow-room with an extension of a CPU water cooler might be possible.