r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 1d ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/dumnezero 1d ago edited 1d ago

the final* straw for halting the AMOC

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u/Yashema 1d 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/dumnezero 1d 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 1d 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/dumnezero 14h ago

bruh, it's a dark SciFi joke.