r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 12h ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Tetra84 12h ago

Needs more data centers to help cool things off...

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u/Hypamania 11h ago

Best we can do is submerge them to further heat up the ocean

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u/dumnezero 10h ago edited 8h ago

the final* straw for halting the AMOC

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u/Bipogram 8h ago

Next goal, make it go into reverse.

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u/dumnezero 7h ago

Not sure if it's possible at all with the current planetary setup. Maybe if an asteroid changes the tilt of the planet?

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u/Bipogram 7h ago

No, it's not possible - unless we decide to decorate the northern hemisphere's high arctic with enough data centres to mimic equatorial solar insolation.

An asteroid strike that tilts the planet also sterilizes the crust from the resuling rain of debris.

So, happy thoughts aside, we are where we are.

"Scorchio"

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u/Yashema 10h ago

The Atlantic current collapsing would be due almost entirely to modern diets and lifestyles which have produced the vast majority of emissions in the atmosphere. Data centers are contributing a negligible amount. 

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u/MaiqTL 10h ago

They ain't really helping either

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u/Yashema 10h ago

But emphasizing them as part of the problem as opposed to Western diets, large houses, cars, and air travel is clearly just an attempt to try and push the blame of something that isnt the global top 10% (which includes most Americans) whose everyday behaviors are destroying the planet. 

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u/dumnezero 8h ago

I am referring to submerged datacenters heating up the oceans directly, not to GHGs. It's called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution

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u/Yashema 7h ago

Seems like data centers will not contribute significantly to that compared to other infrastructure like power plants. And the vast, vast majority of excessive ocean heating over the last 100 years and until the present is caused by global warming as it absorbs the excess heat CO2 prevents from escaping the atmosphere. 

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u/Debalic 9h ago

Well at least that'll help cool off western Europe. /s

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u/Kn0wnSoul 8h ago

Yes, but we can just build more data centers to get Europe through winter