They Did The Math

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I had no idea how much heat has been added to the atmosphere (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/theydidthemath@mander.xyz

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Well they didn't really do much math, but the stats are interesting.

This source says the energy added to the atmosphere by global warming is 4E23 jeules.

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/43724/20230512/global-warming-trapped-explosive-amount-energy-equivalent-25-billion-atomic.htm

This source say data centers in 2025 consumed 415 TWh (1.5E18 jeules).

https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/focus-data-centres-energy-hungry-challenge-2025-11-17_en

Yeah its not much but of course this doesn't include the impact of the carbon released by powering the data centers, especially when they are using horrible power sources, just the heat from running the servers.

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