They found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations. In extreme cases, nearby temperatures increase by up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

These increases were consistent across the globe, the researchers found. In Mexico’s Bajio region, for example, which has become a data center hub, the study found unexplained temperature rises of around 3.6 degrees over the last 20 years. A similar situation was seen in Aragon, Spain, a European center for hyperscale AI data centers, which recorded a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees which was not replicated in neighboring provinces.

Strikingly, the impacts weren’t limited to a data center’s immediate surroundings; temperature increases affected areas up to 6.2 miles (10km) away, the research found, affecting more than 340 million people.


https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported

Hard to believe that Fahrenheit could reach around the globe. Much like Imperial, which only four nations use, a pretty isolated case.

Jasin wrote on Mar 31^st, 2026 at 8:31am:

Hard to believe that Fahrenheit could reach around the globe. Much like Imperial, which only four nations use, a pretty isolated case.

I like the Kelvin scale, it's definition has less ambiguity then F and C.

Exactly Tallowood.
If it was Celcius, I could believe it would be global warming.
:D

To make it worse, everyone in those heat islands will have to use their air conditioners more.

Tokyo creates a significant heat island that causes more localised rain on summer evenings, increasing summer rainfall by 30%.

From space, Astro and cosmonauts see millions of electrical fires burning away both big and small on the night side.
Now, if only we can cool down the sunny side. :D

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millions of electrical fires burning

Do you mean lights?

Our planet has probably been heating up, slightly, but.....

Wouldn't any 'normal' fluctuation in our own solar stars normal 'behaviour' remain the largest influence upon the ambient temperatures which we experience, here, on this tiny, tiny planet ?

Comparably, the mass of our star, is huge, in comparison to the mass of our little piece of 'earth' - Adama.


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The name "Adama" is of Hebrew origin and has multiple meanings. In Hebrew, it means "earth"....

And, 'we' are 'living'.....'only' eight minutes away from our sun's dangerous, and unpredictable 'emanations'.




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The Sun's mass is around 330,000 times that of Earth's, making up about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.

- wiki


It is a big, big, big, universe.

And yet, we all have such concern, about our 'life' [our lives], upon this tiny, tiny, speck of 'dust',
which we all 'exist' upon.

Our life, here, is a distraction.....from reality.
.....whatever   that   is.

freediver wrote on Mar 31^st, 2026 at 8:41pm:

Quote: millions of electrical fires burning Do you mean lights?

Yes. They generate heat. Even black roads do too. Cities, towns generate more heat than their empty rural country surrounds in their regions.