News Japanese Data Center Starts Eel Farming Side Hustle

[Admin]

A Hokkaido data center has chosen to diversify its activity by cultivating eels within its walls. The facilities cultivate eels in the residual, 33º C snowmelt water that results from the data center's cooling process.

Japanese Data Center Starts Eel Farming Side Hustle : Read more

 

[USAFRet]

"The company initially flew in around 1,700 juvenile eels to be deployed in tanks that receive the waste water from the facility's cooling setup. "

Godzilla 2030!!

Stay in your lane, bro.

 

[Krotow]

Green energy source and a way how to get rid of company "enemies". Win-win.

 

[goober0]

The article humorously theorizes about electricity generated by the aquacultured eels powering something. Not all eels are electric (only the genus Electrophorus is). Unagi (Japanese freshwater eels, Anguilla japonica ) are not.

 

[jacob249358]

Those are some expensive eels. It would be pretty cool have an eel that grew up in water used to cool a data center.