The server that could heat your home at no cost

A radiator fitted with a computer server could help provide free heating for homes.

The heat generated by servers has been exploited on an industrial scale to warm buildings, but this is the first time somebody else's server has been used to heat a home.

"The eRadiators are not being used for permanent storage," said Boaz Leupe the CEO of Nerdalize, "They are really meant for firms, or universities, or research institutes that have a need for computation power."

Mr Leupe said the amount of electricity the Eneco eRadiators used was monitored and the home owners reimbursed for the running costs.

BBC Click's Marc Cieslak reports.

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