silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · edit-223 hours agoData centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Farenheitwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1207file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1207external-linkData centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Farenheitwww.cnn.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · edit-223 hours agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
This news article is about a preprint, which means that the study wasn’t peer-reviewed. It has a number of serious problems
minus-squareAsafum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days ago“I hear you, you’re concerned about climate change, I get it. So how about more heat!” …ughhh
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThe effect here is not the heat, it’s the utter waste of energy to generate that heat.
minus-squareZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoSuddenly the plot of the science fiction movie The Arrival doesn’t seem so fictional any more.
“I hear you, you’re concerned about climate change, I get it. So how about more heat!”
…ughhh
The effect here is not the heat, it’s the utter waste of energy to generate that heat.
Suddenly the plot of the science fiction movie The Arrival doesn’t seem so fictional any more.