this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
-1 points (49.0% liked)

Technology

59105 readers
3208 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
-1
Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 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.