I largely don't find that surprising. Industry and mechanical activity (cars) cause direct warming - see "urban heat islands", "weekend temperature effect", and as a bonus the "weekend ozone effect". The latter two aren't necessarily as consistent as the former.
But what I do find surprising is
>A separate study by an international team of researchers found that data centers outside urban centers raised the surrounding area’s temperature by 2 degrees Celsius on average and, in some cases, by up to 9 degrees Celsius.
9 degrees F would be already be wild, but 9 C sounds crazy! I wish I could figure out what source they were talking about, but I haven't been able to.
>9 degrees F would be already be wild, but 9 C sounds crazy!
Honestly, that shifts me firmly into the "I don't believe that for a second" territory. If anybody can actually show the studies with measurements where that happened, though, I'd be interested.
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>A separate study by an international team of researchers found that data centers outside urban centers raised the surrounding area’s temperature by 2 degrees Celsius on average and, in some cases, by up to 9 degrees Celsius.
9 degrees F would be already be wild, but 9 C sounds crazy! I wish I could figure out what source they were talking about, but I haven't been able to.
Honestly, that shifts me firmly into the "I don't believe that for a second" territory. If anybody can actually show the studies with measurements where that happened, though, I'd be interested.
Having said that, the original source for the story was the very first search result for "data centres 9 degrees celsius": https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres.... And it's in New Scientist so there's proper data, and a link to the actual publication, which is https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20897.