Rechenzentren erhöhen in Phoenix die Temperaturen in der Umgebung um bis zu 4 Grad
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-centers-nearby-temperatures-degrees-phoenix.html
Rechenzentren erhöhen in Phoenix die Temperaturen in der Umgebung um bis zu 4 Grad
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-centers-nearby-temperatures-degrees-phoenix.html
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That is actually quite large. Ac at 67 is great. 71 is too much. Fuck me. 4 degrees is a shit load
Edit: people seem to miss I was using the ac as an example of how noticeable 4 degrees is. Not directly worried about ac usage.
In Phoenix at that. Where Asphalt remelts.
It’s dry heat /s
This is ridiculous, most people don’t even want AI and the billionaires are going to heat up earth like VENUS(not mars like my dumb brain went to) for what?
building data centers in phoenix and then being surprised they make it hotter is like building a fireplace in a sauna and wondering why it got warm
Maybe siting hot industrial sites in the desert isn’t such a great idea.
Great idea. Build something that raises temps and also sucks up water. In the desert.
Ahh I see we want to remove what little water was left in Phoenix
Building a datacenter in one of the hottest places on Earth where water is finite?
Data centers are not just AI. It’s the cloud, it’s gov surveillance, it’s server farms.
No problem if any city can take an additional 4 degree temperature rise it’s Phoenix, Illinois
When the infrastructure priorities shift from the well-being of PEOPLE to the well-being of THINGS, then the human species is heading for extinction.
More information from the article:
“Temperatures downwind of data centers averaged 1.3 to 1.6 degrees F warmer than upwind temperatures and reached as high as 4 degrees F above upwind temperatures. The heat impact was detectable up to a third of a mile, or about five city blocks, distant from the perimeter of datacenters.”
It’s funny all the conspiracy theories talking about lizard people who want to heat the planet up. Now I’m like damn these mfers were right
Why are we making Phoenix even hotter?!
It is a monument to men’s arrogance!
Have you ever driven or walked in NYC during a summer evening? Passing by Central Park, the drop in temperatures is incredibly noticeable.
It’s a giant air conditioner in the middle of the city. How can this be possible in other large cities lacking water? I don’t think building data centers are the answer.
While they’re at it, they should make electric prices higher and consume all the humans‘ water.
hey remember when NFT and bitcoin mining rigs ruined local areas? yeah that but on state scale.
I love how six years ago there was a huge global summit on global warming and the whole world is freaking out about it and setting these extremely ambitious targets and now it’s just like fuck it let’s build 2000 data centers
why the fuck would you build a data centre in arizona
They raise your electricity prices then they make you use more electricity, double wham
Data centers are literally *destroying* the environment in every sense of the word.
LMAO we are so fucking stupid as a society! Hey, let’s build a massive, heat-producing, water-intensive warehouse building in the middle of a desert next to one of the hottest cities in the world, where there is an ongoing water crisis. Real smart. It fits well next to all the golf courses they love so much in that valley. Meanwhile, entire communities nearby are losing their utility/drinking water access.
They should task AI woth solving climate change. Maybe they’ll blow themselves up?
We have climate catastrophe and long term drought, Super El Nino, wildfire, unreliable snow pack, unreliable rivers and reservoirs and now data centers. Does anyone work this out on the back of an envelope before committing massive debt to AI infrastructure? Anyone?
they are daring us to stop them at this point
From 120 to 124. Lovely!
Surely theres enough water in Phoenix, AZ to cool everything down, right?
> „Data centers are inherently an important part of our society, and they’re going to become even more necessary going forward,“ Sailor said. Rather than just highlight adverse consequences, his goal is to collaborate with data center providers and other stakeholders to develop the knowledge needed to reduce the heat pollution problem.
Data center builders/owners: Fuck you, pay for my electricity! You should be happy to be hotter!
Of all the cities that needed a temperature increase……
So sounds like it’s about… 6 hours until the remainder of phoenixs fresh water is all used up then?
4 degrees they admit to. Imagine the real number.
In a desert climate where water is already stressed.
yeah, but jobs.
– some republican i assume
Imagine if they built data centers to double as desalination plants and had some usefulness
Makes as much sense sense as growing alfalfa nearby to send overseas for dairy cattle. Always a grift.
Now it’s only 140 degrees there
A monument to man’s arrogance.
This seems like a smooth way to push mankind aside.
AI isn’t worth it. We all know it.
I live in the shadow of a massive data center.
I had views of the mountains, that’s gone.
The value of my home is going to plummet.
I’m going to be able to hear it every moment of every day.
And now I find out it’s going to be hotter?
How is this fucking legal?
Building data centres in a hot desert climate with limited water…
Truly genius ideas
who the f*ck thought ~~living~~ building a data centre in Phoenix was a good idea?!
Why would a data center built in a desert…instead of the bitter cold north?