At one of the conferences in 2005, I had been talking to a few guys from Google who mentioned that power dissipation and cooling becomes a major problem for their parallel systems. So I got maybe a bit crazy idea that instead of developing a better cooling systems, why not to move all such computing systems to the colder North areas. For example, each year people in the northern Russia suffer warming up their houses, so instead of cooling computing systems, we would use their dissipated heat to warm up houses, etc. It can also help these regions socially with investments, reliable power and Internet ... I didn't have time to think more if it is economically, physically and politically reasonable - anyone is interested to research it ;) ?
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