French company Qarnot has shown off a new device that can simultaneously mine cryptocurrency and keep your home warm. As most know, cryptomining requires a lot of processing power and therefore can generate a lot heat. Rather than letting it go to waste, the QC1 computing heater has an efficient solution. Qarnot has been building products that fuse multi-CPU high-performance computing servers with electrical heaters since 2010. These are sold to real estate companies, local authorities, building owners, etc., who are looking to place heaters in their properties. Companies then rent these servers for data crunching purposes, such as 3D
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