I have actually gotten up to run benchmarks on my PC on particularly cold nights.
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People used to mine Bitcointhis was. Only in winter.
For the heat and electricity, it's stunning how much compute I get from my somewhat modern gear vs. my 40U rack of 10-years ago.
my gaming PC literally is a primary heat source in my cold office.
Gaming PCs are about to top out at 1500W, which is a very solid space heater. Honestly, it complements a heat pump just fine. If you can set up a fan pushing air out of your gaming den and/or home server room you're at least starting to justify your stupidly wasteful setup.
I have to be honest, all the PC master race bros are deep into the awkward monkey puppet meme hoping all the AI haters don't realize they're using hardware that can easily run very competent genAI at competitive speeds to play CounterStrike. If you want to make and post that one you have my blessing.
That's why I like my mini PC with a laptop GPU. Its not the most powerful, but it can play most stuff at 1080p Very High settings and get 60 FPS all while using 300ish watts. Good enough for me. I really don't want to deal with noise, size and power consumption of a kitted out gaming rig anymore.
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My server only draws like 300watts max, not a very good heater
Put a 4090 in there and pump those numbers up!
My homelab is in the same space as my furnace so the ambient heat in that space is preheating my ducts. In the summer when the AC runs the cold air leaking into the space helps cool my homelab. In my garage office my desktop with 9 spinning drives and 3070 really keeps the space comfortable.
I have thought of this exact thing and thought I was the only one.
I got a laptop for work, using it at home and I want to use my computer because if I just use my laptop its cold. When my pc runs the rooms is nice and toasty.
Electric heaters literally cost 25 bucks
psychosomatic. Heaters are expensive to run, but if I'm just running my pc, I "Have to" be running that so it doesn't feel more expensive. I have heaters I just keep not turning them on until its too cold.
Just like me playing City Skylines 2 on a cold morning