In the United Kingdom, the annual cost of heating a house has gone from £600 to £2,000 (€2,300). Thermify proposes a solution for reduce the heating bill and 60%and emissions 40%: install a mini data center with 500 Raspberry Pi in your home.
This boiler-sized data center generates enough heat to heat the entire house and provide hot water. In exchange, There are companies that pay to compute their data on this computerreducing the bill to a fixed amount of just 50 pounds per month (57 euros).
It is, also, a benefit for him environmentsince the heat expelled by the data center is not sent into the atmosphere, but is consumed by heating homes. With this system emissions are reduced by 40% compared to gas-based heating.
The most interesting thing of all is that it is a plug-n-play system. No extra installation required. You simply remove your boiler, and in its place install a Homehubwhich has a similar size.
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A solution for AI energy expenditure
Thermify’s standard Homehub uses 500 cards Raspberry Pi Compute Modulesboth CM4 and CM5 models. It is a variant designed to process data, and consumes 70% less than conventional hardware with equivalent power.
This server is the size of a refrigerator, and is intended for central heating solutions that heat an entire building. There are also smaller individual versions, the size of a boiler, for individual homes.
Despite using 500 Raspberry Pi, its computing power is less than a professional server, which is why Thermify is going to create a network data centers domestic workers who will share the workin a honeycomb configuration.
The company does not specify if the user has to pay for the electricity consumed by this data center, or if everything falls within the 50-pound fee. What it does clarify is that it has its own Internet connection, so the client does not lose bandwidth on their fiber.
With technological giants building data centers that consume like all of Portugal, this decentralization based on mini domestic data centers that work in a network can be a solution to the energy voracity of artificial intelligence.
Everyone wins: AI processes their data, users pay 60% less to heat their home, and emissions into the atmosphere are reduced by 40%.
Thermify is already testing the system in several homes in Englandwith special rates for people with low resources, of only 7 euros per month. Its goal is to implement 100,000 Raspberry Pi-based heating systems by 2030.
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