Technology

Years ago, I was driving through NY city-ish. We pulled over in a rest area and I saw a sign about turning your engine off. I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever seen, as did many other people apparently as their cars were idling. Then I got out of my car. I was wrong. The heat was insane. I couldn’t wrap my little head around it. I started doing the engineer math thing because it didn’t make sense.

Doesn’t surprise me at all these massive data centers are creating little heat domes. The cars were bad enough, and they are a fraction of the energy.

I'm not sure what you guys are worried about. All that extra heat will just dissipate into the atmosphere and eventually radiate into space. It's not like there's anything in the atmosphere that would interfere with this cycle... right?

Coming to a neighborhood near you, bringing the noise, heat, and higher electric bills.

Its not enough. Donate fire to a nearby data center today to improve its temperature! 

I sometimes work in the building that's in the thumbnail of the article, that's crazy to see.

But that being said, data centers are definitely a negative for the environment and using them for bogus AI nonsense is horrible.

The graphs in the paper show the temperature 1 km away from the data center being 8°C higher and attribute that to heat emitted by the data center. That should start the alarm bells that something isn't right with this paper.

Here's a post going into the problems with it;

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not?open=false#%C2%A7my-core-claim-this-is-literally-just-measuring-hot-surfaces-of-new-buildings-and-the-soil-and-land-around-those-new-buildings-probably-hasnt-changed-temperature-at-all

Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles away, the research found, affecting more than 340 million people.

Huh?

Demolish all this useless shit to the ground.

Would be nice if they built them in cold climates and piped the heat to houses and buildings like the steam era of old.

Oh, 16 degrees Fahrenheit. Still, thats quite a bit.

plug the cooling vents of those crapfactories

Seeing this kind of news hurts. I’ve had a lifelong interest in computers and technology. I’ve made a career of it and live fairly comfortably because of it. But this makes me certain the positives don’t outweigh the negatives. And I wish we could go back to the 90s/2k when we’re certain this tech would lead to the betterment of the world. Sort of bearing my heart here but technology sucks now.

If that 16° in foreign members or freedom units?

This is perfectly timed because WA states legislature ended their session this year and decided not to take up the topic of regulating data centers. Even better knowing that the PNW just had the warmest winter in history, record low snowpack and nearly every month a new mega data center is opening.

Why don't they build glass hydroponic vegetable gardens? The heating is free.

Sometimes I wish the Epstein class would just mass bomb all us poors already and get it over with. This slow, painful death thing is extremely annoying and stressful.

As a lifelong datacenter tech it really sucks seeing what monster this has all become. And I don't know what else I would do to pay the bills.

Can they capture that heat and recycle it to partially power the site?

Big brain moment. If we stop monitoring it, then problem doesn't exist.

Just need 1 km wide copper heatsinks