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Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Waste heat from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area, the hottest in the U.S.

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They raised the surrounding temperature in fucking Phoenix Arizona? A place already so hot that it can kill you within hours. we’re so fucked.
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  Good thing climate change isn’t real or we’d be in BIG trouble!
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    Yeah… that would be bad…

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