Satellite Analysis Finds Little Evidence that Data Centers Cause Widespread Ground Warming
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Satellite analysis finds little evidence that data centers cause widespread ground warming
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters has found little evidence that hyperscale data centers cause significant heating of surrounding land. While a previous study suggested data centers heat surrounding land by about 2 °C on average (up to 9 °C), reaching 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away, 13 years of satellite data reveal that server waste heat causes minimal nighttime surface warming, while building materials actually cool groun…
This article examines the theory that data center heat makes cities hotter using 13 years of satellite data from Japan. It clearly explains the changes in ground surface temperature before and after construction, as well as the research findings.
Artificial intelligence, cloud storage and streaming services need computing power, and this is in ever larger halls. Hyperscale data centers attract enormous amounts of electricity, and almost every kilowatt hour ends up as heat. Municipalities and residents therefore increasingly ask whether such systems are heating up their neighborhood. An earlier study had suggested exactly that: on average about 2 °C more, in peaks up to 9 °C, and that at …
Heat through servers: Large data centers are considered as possible heat islands that heat up their environment far beyond the factory site. However, an evaluation of 13 years of satellite data in Japan finds hardly any nocturnal warming and even cooler roof surfaces during the day. The findings contradict previous estimates of about two degrees of warming over many kilometers. Chiba (Japan). Where large data centers arise, [...] The article Sat…
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters found little evidence that large-scale data centres cause significant warming of the surrounding land. While a previous study suggested that data centres warm the surrounding land by an average of about 2°C (up to 9°C), reaching 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), [...]
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