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Waste supercomputer heat and old mines could warm homes

Heat from Scottish university supercomputer to be stored in disused mines for domestic heating use

 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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