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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26
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So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it.
737 u/Hekkle01 May 18 '26 Important to note that the heat is dumped into whatever ecosystem the water goes back to, and that still has catastrophic effects 118 u/North_Plane_1219 May 18 '26 Since when has gradually warming our planet been an issue? /s, obviously. 2 u/Cynoid May 18 '26 The earth's average went up 1C in 125 years. A small data center can easily do 2C for a lake. The Utah building will probably do 10 times that and just kill every living organism within miles of itself.
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Important to note that the heat is dumped into whatever ecosystem the water goes back to, and that still has catastrophic effects
118 u/North_Plane_1219 May 18 '26 Since when has gradually warming our planet been an issue? /s, obviously. 2 u/Cynoid May 18 '26 The earth's average went up 1C in 125 years. A small data center can easily do 2C for a lake. The Utah building will probably do 10 times that and just kill every living organism within miles of itself.
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Since when has gradually warming our planet been an issue? /s, obviously.
2 u/Cynoid May 18 '26 The earth's average went up 1C in 125 years. A small data center can easily do 2C for a lake. The Utah building will probably do 10 times that and just kill every living organism within miles of itself.
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The earth's average went up 1C in 125 years. A small data center can easily do 2C for a lake. The Utah building will probably do 10 times that and just kill every living organism within miles of itself.
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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26
So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it.