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📣 westurner

How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?


How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?


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> Ask HN: How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?

- Steam Turbine

- Thermoelectrics (solid state)

- Gravel Battery, Sand Battery (solid state)

- OTEC: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (needs a 20C gradient)

- Water Sterilization

- Heat Pipe contract

- Commercial and Residential HVAC Heat

- Air Filter Production (CO2, Graphene, Heat)

- Water Filter Production (CO2, Graphene, Heat)

- Onsite manufacturing with Carbon & Heat (See: Datacenter Inputs)

- Carbon-based Chip Production (2D Graphene and other forms of Carbon)

- Thermoforming products (e.g. out of now easily-captured CO2 to Graphene and other forms of Carbon)

- Geopolymer production: pads to mount racks on, bricks, radially-curved outwall blocks

- Open-Source CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics; use the waste heat to pay for CFD HPC time to reduce the waste heat with better materials, better facility design with passive thermofluidics and energy reclamation

- Datacenter Inputs: [Earthmoving, Infrastructure], Water, Air, Concrete, Beams, Electricity, Turbines, Bolts, Racks, Fans, PCs, Copper power Wires and data Cabling, Bandwidth, Fiber Cabling

- Datacenter Outputs: Boiled Water, Warm Air, Data, recyclable building materials, Electricity