Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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I do not understand why so many datacenters are in hot climates with limited water supplies.

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Probably cheap electricity

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Most of the areas are also very “business friendly.” So, lots of tax breaks and other subsidies with very little oversight and few, if any, guarantees of job creation.

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Phoenix has a ton of land and no major natural disasters.

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So they will be murdering hundreds if not thousands of people per year.

According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, at least 4320 people died of heat related illness in 2023 and 2024 combined. 2/3 of Arizona lives in Phoenix, so that’s around 1400 people per year already. 3⁰C extra will be catastrophic.

People will come back to houses with their loved ones boiled to death because the AC broke and the repair service wouldn’t risk their life sending anyone out there. People will have engine failure and die on the side of the highway before AAA can arive. Fire risk is also going to increase to absurd levels so entire neighborhoods might well burn down.

I really hope this is going to be enough to start a revolution, because that is going to be hell.

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That will help offset the chilling cold they suffer from in Phoenix!

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And use up all the extra water they have so much of!

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In Phoenix, of all places, where summers are hot enough without this.

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They gave up on getting a permit for the data centre in Death Valley?

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In the meantime there’s a whole thread full of comments on the new Chinese underwater data centers talking about how they don’t heat up shit. Funny how China keeps coming up with these solutions that are perfect and the rest of the world just somehow can’t…

Edit: /s on Chinese solutions being perfect since that seems to have been less obvious than I thought it was.

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Of course those data centers heat up, too. They heat up the water, which in turn heats up the air. You pump electricity into data centers, and this electricity turns to 100% into heat, everywhere in the world.

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That’s what I was pointing out…

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Design modifications to facilities and cooling equipment informed by high-resolution microclimate modeling

Everything but telling them to get out.

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Way to go, Phoenix, as if it weren’t hot enough there already. Your data centers continue to prove Peggy Hill right about you.

Spoiler

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Easy Mode Copper Mines raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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All the boys from the highschool be driving their ladies out that direction. They get so hot they take all their clothes off. Just like that we solve our population decline. Who knew AI would save us?

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And of course this is intentional.

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They do realize how hot it is in Phoenix? Jeez

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Four degrees plus climate change. Either you move to a saner place, or you start working in the ACinstallation or sales field

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funnily enough, my dad lives in Phoenix, and is about to finish HVAC school.

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Slow roasting, at least the cannibals will be happy!

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Pretty sure the plan is to use them to spy on everyone, then eventually phase them into detention centers without having any additional publicity.

It probably won’t be at once, and for a while they will dual purpose buildings and make the people they detain use the drainage water for drinking\bathing while living in sweltering conditions.

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When said in Celsius it doesn’t sound as bad.

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