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Comment by metalsiliconYT

18 hours ago

The key is this says at distances up to 500m downwind. This is a nothing burger sorry

Cool, I'll be putting big data ai machine learning data center in your back yard.

  • No one has ever built a full datacenter in someones backyard...

    • The referenced 169 MW location is literally across the street from a residential neighborhood, where the article indicates they measured temperature differences[0].

      > This gap is significant because many facilities are sited adjacent to residential neighborhoods (Fig. 1), and their air-cooled condenser arrays discharge air at temperatures 8–14 °C above ambient—often exceeding 50 °C during Phoenix summers—with air velocities of 2–4 m/s [15,16], creating thermal plumes that are advected downwind over inhabited areas. For example, the Iron Mountain Data Center (Fig. 1(c)) has cooling equipment located less than 50 m from the nearest three-story apartment building.

      [0] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/33.267398/-111.880313

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