minus-squarecogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNNlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down3·7 days agoThe 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#§my-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 linkfedilink
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#§my-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