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Satellite analysis finds little evidence that data centers cause widespread ground warming (phys.org)
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A new study published in Environmental Research Letters has found little evidence that hyperscale data centers cause significant heating of surrounding land. While a previous study suggested data centers heat surrounding land by about 2 °C on average (up to 9 °C), reaching 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away, 13 years of satellite data reveal that server waste heat causes minimal nighttime surface warming, while building materials actually cool ground temperatures during the day.

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I didn't even think about cherry picking and how the data compares to other regions, does it hold up or is there some environmental thing absorbing the heat?

Tokyo is right on the ocean in an island nation, does that carry the heat away more than the data centers being dropped in Phoenix and such?

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