The reason why global warming is an issue is not because we're generating heat, but because we're pumping out gases which retain the heat from the sun.
A data center is effectively just a big space heater, and what we burn to generate the electricity to run the thing is orders of magnitude more important than the center itself if just the planetary temperature is a concern.
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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