- The sustainability problem is Energy and Waste Management
- Summary of Data furnaces arrive in Europe: Free heating, if you have fibre Internet
- Nerdalize is offering 1000 watz of free heating through distributed data centers
- Heat is provided from their data unit distributed across housing in the Netherlands
- Requirement is for a fibre optic internet connection
- Initial setup cost by household is between €400 and €500
- Many problems with this approach including security, damaging, and privacy
- Stakeholders involved are
- Nerdalize
- Users of Nerdalize
- Consumers of the Nerdalize eRadiator
- Deployment
- Step 1: Offer free installation to small town in Netherlands with fiber
- Step 2: Begin using the data centers and monitor performance against standard data centers
- Step 3: Measure peformance, modify software/hardware, and roll out new changes across all other regions