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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

submitted 1 year ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can't help but think a couple decades from now it's going to start causing us problems

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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

everything still creates heat, and it has to go somewhere.

But it does. Heat does radiate into space, just not necessarily enough to overcome what's trapped in the atmosphere. If we cut out other sources then generations of humans would be negligible.