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nosuchanon 55 points 3 months ago

So this is how we boil the oceans? With fucking underwater AI data centers. Definitely not on my bingo card

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CovfefeKills -19 points 3 months ago

Hmm so the sun is chucking a bunch of heat into the earth right, what is happening to that heat? Why not get some use out of that energy before it radiates away into space? This is a good thing, yes bad things exist, but this one is good.

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Typhoonigator 14 points 3 months ago

Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you're misunderstanding the situation. They are not pulling heat from the ocean, they are adding to it. And unfortunately that heat is doing a bad job of raidiating into space.

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Admetus 4 points 3 months ago

In thermodynamics, this is the heat goes in, heat goes out. Also temperature higher, more heat goes out.

And CovfefeKills is right. Heat from the sun is orders of magnitude higher than a little bitty data centre. And that heat gets re-radiated to space. It's all balanced. Except for when you put more heat absorbing gases into the atmosphere which include increasing levels of evaporating water. All to power and cool current data centres.

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CovfefeKills -7 points 3 months ago

The Earth is constantly bombarded by the sun, why doesn't the Earth just continuously heat up? Because it radiates heat away into space. So heat itself isn't the problem okay It just goes off into space. The problems come from the balance of absorded energy vs. radiated energy which is why oil is such a bad thing at such a large scale, it's ancient sun energy that can't be radiated fast enough. And fucking with our enviroment and atmosphere which has degraded the ability to radiate energy.

Taking daily solar wind energy and converting it into heat energy in the ocean itself is no problem, the problem is if the ocean cannot radiate away that heat due to fucking with the atmosphere. And by taking more solar energy and converting it to useful energy we reduce the amount of fucking with the atmosphere. It's a good thing.

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bitjunkie 6 points 3 months ago

They're using the ocean to cool the computers. This heats the water.

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