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June 2, 2015 10:38 am GMT

Data furnaces provide Internet and warm heat, if you live in the Netherlands

Nerdalize

A Dutch company is offering those with a fiber-optic internet connection free heating for life

Nerdalize is installing data furnaces in the Netherlands and running their cloud computing business directly from them, according to Ars Technica UK.

Data furnaces are an inventive way to kill two birds with one stone. Data centers are normally huge and full of rows of large, metallic servers that need to be cooled. They're normally used to store information for cloud services. Instead of storing all those servers in one place, Nerdalize is spreading them out to people's homes

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