UK Power Networks Trials Raspberry Pi Datacenters for Home Heating in Low-Income Areas
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UK Power Networks is piloting an innovative project that installs mini datacenters powered by Raspberry Pi hardware in customers' homes to provide heating. The SHIELD program aims to help low-income families struggling with energy costs by reusing heat generated from computing hardware. The system includes solar and battery systems, and replaces traditional gas boilers with Thermify's HeatHub boilers that use clustered compute instead of gas flames.
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UKPN, which manages the 'last mile' of cables and substations delivering electricity from the National Grid to customers in the South East of England, is piloting the project as part of its SHIELD (Smart Heat and Intelligent Energy in Low-income Districts) program.
This will equip participating households with solar and battery systems
UK Power Networks trials Thermify's HeatHub boilers, swapping gas flames for clustered compute
: UK Power Networks trials Thermify's HeatHub boilers, swapping gas flames for clustered compute
