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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Farenheit

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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Farenheit

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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 day ago

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This news article is about a preprint, which means that the study wasn’t peer-reviewed. It has a number of serious problems

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