Home News Computing (Image credit: Luke Hughes / Heata press assets) UPDATE 17/02/2023: This article has been amended with comments from a Heata spokesperson about the security of its server units, and how its business clients use them. Those impatient to sell their soul needn’t waste a second more: the ultimate Faustian bargain for our modern age has arrived, courtesy of UK “green distributed compute network” Heata (opens in new tab).The offer (opens in new tab) (via Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab)) is deceptively simple. You let Heata install a water-heating server unit next to your existing hot water cylinder, and it’ll provide up to 4.8kWh of free hot water a day (80% of a UK household’s daily use, apparently) for an entire year.This is done simply by letting businesses use the server for cloud computation while the unit scoops up waste heat.Dubious server installationsIn theory, it sounds like a strong concept, given that it currently costs a pretty penny to heat a home. And so you may be tempted to let a company that claims to be committed to stamping out fuel poverty (opens in new tab), and able to save you “up to £200 a year (opens in new tab)”, help out.Except that the company began within, and still has investment links to, Briti… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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