Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers

Post by watwut » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #16

so now we are speed-running global warming there are now record setting gas turbine sales instead of solar/nuclear * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK1w and for what? so we can have totally useless "AI" customer service agents where you still have to demand to talk to a human to properly get a problem solved

Post by christiangenco » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

bigbuppo wrote: post #21

metalsiliconYT wrote: post #19

The key is this says at distances up to 500m downwind. This is a nothing burger sorry

Cool, I'll be putting big data ai machine learning data center in your back yard.

Post by lbrito » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #16

so now we are speed-running global warming there are now record setting gas turbine sales instead of solar/nuclear * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK1w and for what? so we can have totally useless "AI" customer service agents where you still have to demand to talk to a human to properly get a problem solved

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

atleastoptimal wrote: post #25

The whole data center heat/water thing is like not even in the top 100 risks/issues related to AI, but it's all people seem to care about. Why is that?

Post by metalsiliconYT » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #16

so now we are speed-running global warming there are now record setting gas turbine sales instead of solar/nuclear * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK1w and for what? so we can have totally useless "AI" customer service agents where you still have to demand to talk to a human to properly get a problem solved