Waste heat from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area, the hottest in the U.S.
I really don’t get that. Every desert I’ve lived in, as soon as the sun went down the temperature dropped like ten, maybe twenty frankfurters. Phoenix just stays hot and that definitely seems engineered
But Phoenix isn’t a desert anymore, it’s a big concrete pad that works just like any rock you put into a hot space… it absorbs heat through the day then radiates it back out once the sun is down. They replaced the desert but didn’t leave holes for it to still work the same.
I really don’t get that. Every desert I’ve lived in, as soon as the sun went down the temperature dropped like ten, maybe twenty frankfurters. Phoenix just stays hot and that definitely seems engineered
Yeah that’s what deserts do.
But Phoenix isn’t a desert anymore, it’s a big concrete pad that works just like any rock you put into a hot space… it absorbs heat through the day then radiates it back out once the sun is down. They replaced the desert but didn’t leave holes for it to still work the same.