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Can heat waste computers and data centers be used to heat and provide energy to the next generation of green house?

This link contains information about something done at Notre Dame: http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/greenhouse-and.html

I also recommend this editorial from Dickson D. Despommier, Professor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences and Microbiology at Columbia University about vertical green houses http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sph/ehs/4.html

I have been thinking about this for years. I predict the use of green houses to grow crops will increase significantly, due to the controlled, year round environment and emerging constraints on availability of arable land.

This Notre Dame thing is very interesting, however I suspect to be viable, the computers and plants can not be co-housed, so the challenge will be to harvest the heat from data center and provide it to green houses in a controlled manner.

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