And the smoke from the peasants fires will make stars !

couldnt be those pesky gases that likes to trap and reflect heat could it?

100% of electricity burned turns to heat save light that leaves earth. Gigawatt data center? That's ~650,000 1500w space heaters.

There's 33kWh worth of energy in a gallon of gasoline, and they use 0.3gal/hour when idling, so cars are pumping out 11kWh of heat just sitting there....that's a surprisingly large amount of heat.

The noise is the bigger deal.

Funnily enough, it looks like most data centers are built near mini-mansion neighborhoods.

Kinda nice seeing the affluent class have to deal with infrastructure being built at their expense.

You're absolutely right!

can i have a job

Tax them enough to install geothermal heat pumps in the surrounding homes.

That's exactly what Google did in Finland.

Microsoft also has a similar project.

"Like the steam era of old"? 🤣

What you're describing is called district heating and is totally a thing in Europe. There actually are data centers in Europe that contribute to their local district heating grid.

This would require investment in infrastructure, which is a completely foreign concept to american politicians when it's not about adding one more lane

But won't someone think of the TechnoFeudalists!

Think of all the money they can't spent on hedonism and depravity!

Blow the water mains.

Lol I thought Celsius, would've been hell. It's in Farenheit

yea

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

Yeah it got me too haha

I used to work in automation within the auto industry. Once I became aware of the damage I was doing by being an enabler, that shit began to eat away at my mental health. I knew I had to make an exit plan when all of my day dreams while working there involved Molotov cocktails.

I don't envy anyone who has to deal with that kind of mental load. Knowing the harm you're causing while wanting the opposite but still needing to survive the next day, week or month.

No bro llms are good bro they're so efficient bro trust me.

I need 10 trilllion more bro and it'll be so good i promise.

Yeah, it's so much more efficient and climate friendly to have people in offices managing data with paper instead of computers.

Same, this wave is smearing shit over the technical hobby turned career that I've loved since forever that I can remember. My recent desire to rewind and redo makes me feel old AF.

Same. I'm at the point where if I never sat behind a computer again, I think I would be ok with that. Also, video games and their crappy consoles suck now too.

You expressed my own thought better than I could! 'member when Internet was that awesome thing full of promises that allowed people to share knowledge all over the world? Now we just swim in toxicity of all forms. What an absolute mess we made of my favorite technology ever. I poured my life in it, it's the only thing that ever paid the bills, and now after being laid off for too long I barely have the energy to look for a job because I'll hate it anyway.

Where do you think the heat from that heatsink eventually goes? The only way to get "rid" of it is into the air or the water.

Worked for COVID amirite?

You sir, just got a job in the nuclear regulatory c.ommission.