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.

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

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

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

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?

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

Demolish all this useless shit to the ground.

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.

plug the cooling vents of those crapfactories

If that 16° in foreign ~~members~~ numbers or freedom units?

Edit: autocorrect error

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

Sigh… wasting power, wasting nand chips, hard drives and for what? Aiding climate change.

But at least we can have a hallucinating chatbot.

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.

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.

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.

Just need 1 km wide copper heatsinks

We could soon heat entire countries with the heat from these doomsday factories

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