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A satisfying vindication for the author, who has built a niche disputing alarmist takes on AI's environmental footprint. The physics does hold at the planetary scale: waste heat from data centers is a rounding error next to greenhouse forcing, so a correction to the earlier study's dramatic claims was predictable.… more
The nuance worth keeping: dense clusters like Northern Virginia can still feel genuine localized heating, so the local-versus-global framing matters more than the headline. In our view, this properly refocuses the data center debate on what actually matters — emissions, grid strain and siting — rather than server rooms warming the atmosphere.
We finally get a more detailed study on data center waste heat, and it appears (as I predicted using very simple high school physics) that they're not capable of producing the heating effects that last study suggested https://t.co/7zPbB5bgLI https://t.co/oQAWU3Hfxd
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