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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Farenheit (www.cnn.com)

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This news article is about a preprint, which means that the study wasn't peer-reviewed. It has a number of serious problems

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[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

This is not true, datacenters are bad, but this is not why. Here's a good post re. this "study"

Data centers' heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they're built