Heating homes with clouds

The article I read is: Heat your house for free by storing this cloud company’s servers.

I like this idea quite a bit - the home-owner hosts the servers' physical location in exchange for the heat that can be used to heat the home, and internet service. Also, if you consider an entire neighbourhood doing this, it (essentially) improves the reliability and/or overall storage space (depending on how it's set up).

This article reminded me of a parody advertisement I made a few years ago, where there would be a program to use 100% of the CPU (such as a loop that can be broken) and would heat a room - turning the computer into a space-heater.

During the cold winter days, I prefer to spend time in my bedroom with Mei-chan, since she can heat up my bedroom to a more comfortable temperature than what the second floor usually is (I obviously have my door closed).

I don't really like space heaters, since they only have one function (heat an area), and can use around the same amount of power as a computer. Mei-chan's power supply is 500 watts (though I doubt she actually uses all 500 watts), and the two oil-filled space heaters in the basement (which aren't really used any more) have 3 modes: 600W, 900W, and 1500W.

Of course the only problem is that the computer is only going to be an effective space heater if it puts out enough heat. In Lie-chan's case, she doesn't put out enough heat to be able to heat my entertainment room as I found out the other day. I was redoing Lie-chan's partitioning scheme and removing Windows, finding out that Lie-chan didn't get over 25C from BIOS; the entire time I was working with her, I was cold. I'm sure Ziggy would've done a lot better job (LOL).