RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116334729524665446

I'm just a touch skeptical about the claims here. I can believe that large data centers may raise temperatures around them, but the claim about raising nearby temperatures up to 16.4F and that the changes could be felt up to 3.3 miles away.

To be clear, I'm not questioning the concept that data centers may raise temperatures -- I'm just a bit skeptical about the, no pun intended, degree of the changes.

However, I do think we should be hard applying the brakes on building new data centers, etc., to study their environmental impacts before just blindly building out more.