alt Hacker News> every single one of those Joules ends up as one Joule of waste heat.
Yes it ends up as heat, but with some forethought, it could be used to eg heat people's homes rather than as waste.
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TheSpiceIsLife • today at 7:23 AM
You can say that about any waste heat.
In really, it’s not convenient to move all waste heat to where it’s more needed.
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These days it's not rare to have data center heated buildings. I guess crypto bros are just not thinking about this. But technically if could be done there too.