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A couple has saved hundreds on energy bills each month - after becoming the first in the UK to warm their home with heat from computers.

Terrence and Lesley Bridges, from Braintree in Essex, are using an innovative method in their garden shed to heat up their home. The pair, from Braintree in Essex, have become the first people to trial HeatHub.

The data centre involves the use of more than 500 tiny computers in their garden shed. It is called a HeatHub which is part of UK Power Networks’ SHIELD project.

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The pair have also had solar panels and a battery installed in their home under the shake-up. Terrence, 76, has found the HeatHub “truly brilliant”. “I’m over the moon that we got picked to

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