RE: Microsoft to dump it's computers into the sea.
June 8, 2018 at 10:57 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2018 at 11:19 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(June 8, 2018 at 10:43 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Given the volume of surface water and air, our most vainglorious attempt to heat them up to any significant degree by burning fuels in our reach would amount to nothing for the foreseeable horizon.
The concern is always how human activity can indirectly cause the sun to heat the air and ocean more effectively.
Take all the data farms in the world. They produce a lot of heat. If you are heating the sea then it traps the heat on Earth for longer than if you heat the air, where it will be more quickly escape into space. If we're getting a greenhouse effect of a thin layer of methane and carbon dioxide, then we're adding to that greenhouse by first heating the oceans. Because the heat from the oceans still has to get through the atmosphere to escape the planet.
Of course data farms aren't the only contributing factor to climate change, but nor are they a negligible one either.
