I have not noticed that. What have you been playing? If you've been playing the same games, and they've had updates, it's possible those updates are unoptimized or just heavier to run at the settings you had previously.

I had an issue with the fans on mine. Went through steam support for some troubling steps and eventually had to send it in for repair.

~$160 for the repair, but issue is resolved.

I haven't noticed any increase, but I tend to use custom fan curves and play the same 5 - 10 games most of the time, so it doesn't vary much.

I worry this may be some form of confirmation bias or something. Because at that I was like "huh, I hadn't thought of that, but now that I do, I think you're right! It HAS been slightly more lately!"

Then I realized that I've been purposely holding off updates since August, so it can't be true haha.

I'm not saying the same happened to you, I'm just saying it happened to me, so it's possible it's happening to others 🤷‍♂️😂