Some of the environmental posturing might be a bit much for some, but otherwise this is an interesting article.
TL;DR is that this family were chosen to trial a mini data center in their house for heat. It slashed their electricity bill and it apparently much better for the environment.
Mike Richardson, the 66-year-old founder and owner of DSM, says he had tried to incorporate "nature" as much as possible into his data centre at a former RAF base just off the A1 near Peterborough.
A 200kW array of solar panels helps power it, and a 500 cubic-metre artificial lake cools it down.
The lake is filled with water collected from the roof of an old aircraft hangar and pumped from two boreholes.
Four heat exchangers are submerged in the 1.7 metre deep water, which is also home to dozens of koi carp and tench – fish that have their own role in the operation.
"We need to keep the pipes clean, and they eat the algae," Mr Richardson tells the BBC.
With a 400kW capacity, the data centre is relatively small – or "boutique", according to Mr Richardson.
I personally like this idea as it should start to normalize having something like a "data center" in the house. Mining bitcoin could tag along with the trend and we end up with a much more distributed mining network.