Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
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That will help offset the chilling cold they suffer from in Phoenix!
And use up all the extra water they have so much of!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE
I love that even before I looked I knew what this was going to be.
In Phoenix, of all places, where summers are hot enough without this.
They gave up on getting a permit for the data centre in Death Valley?
In the meantime there’s a whole thread full of comments on the new Chinese underwater data centers talking about how they don’t heat up shit. Funny how China keeps coming up with these solutions that are perfect and the rest of the world just somehow can’t…
Edit: /s on Chinese solutions being perfect since that seems to have been less obvious than I thought it was.
Of course those data centers heat up, too. They heat up the water, which in turn heats up the air. You pump electricity into data centers, and this electricity turns to 100% into heat, everywhere in the world.
That’s what I was pointing out…