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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.

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[–] 13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Only a handful of countries use Fahrenheit, but they're still too arrogant to add the unit. I get not including Celsius because of the target audience, and dropping the unit in conversation but this isn't that

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    metric is so much more simpler,

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    For temperature, not really. Both Celsius and Fahrenheit are useful for different things.

    Fahrenheit is great for what we feel (it's related to body temperature for the high end, and the freezing point of brine on 0).

    Celsius is great for cooking, or applications where you care about what water is doing (0 is freezing, 100 is boiling).

    Neither uses different scales, like other metric units increasing by 10s (at least, I've never seen anything like kC). If you're doing that, you're using Kelvin, which is a fundamental base temperature, where 0 is actually 0, which makes more sense for physics and math, but is less useful for what we feel.

    I think the US should switch, just to make it easier to communicate, and other metric scales actually are better. C and F are both equally useful for different things though. Neither is actually a better scale.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who grew up with Fahrenheit, it's an arbitrary scale. 0 is the "coldest thing" that he could create in a lab at the time, basically a bath of ice and salt water, 100-ish was supposed to be the temperature of a healthy human body. They are unrelated things. It has nothing to do with "what we feel", people only think that because they grew up with it. The same can be said for all imperial measurements because there is no other way to say that 12 inches to a foot and 3 feet to a yard is "intuitive".

    Celsius putting freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 (at sea level) are related to each other because it's measuring the temperature of water the entire time and then setting that as a the literal metric we use to measure other things.

    I switched to Celsius for a couple of years and after going through a couple of seasons or two I had an intuitive feeling for what a value would feel like. It made perfect sense. I only stopped using it because my phone switched back one day for some reason and I was tired of having to convert to freedom units to avoid getting odd reactions from people.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    They are unrelated things. It has nothing to do with "what we feel"

    I didn't say it did. I just said it's more useful for that. Whether it was on purpose or not, 100 and 0 are when it's dangerous. Before those it can still be, but beyond them you really need to be careful.

    Celsius is also arbitrary. There's no particular reason water, at sea level, is used for the scale. It was just chosen. If you're measuring water, it's great. Otherwise, there's nothing that makes it "better" than F. It's not easier to convert to scale to higher or lower numbers or anything, which is what the metric system usually has an advantage with. They're both just scales.

    I've been playing Stationeers a lot lately. (It's a game about managing a station on another planet, and simulates liquids and gasses really well, following the ideal gas law, and phase changes, and all that good stuff. I highly recommend it, and the devs are great.) In that you use Celsius and Kelvin, with you often needing kK or even larger. It wouldn't make sense to use F, because it's hard to switch between F and K, but C and K are the same, with K just being 274.15 higher. I have no issue with C, but this type of use is the one place it's better, and no one I know would ever have to do this.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If only we could harness the energy of people bitching about not using Celsius we could power the whole world.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Ahaha. I'm not even bitching about that. I'm doing that pedantic thing that physics teachers do where they point out the number without the units isn't correct

    That said, if the US just used SI units...

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