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4 Nov 2026
New Study Challenges Data Heat Island Claims Around Hyperscale Data Centres
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters has found little evidence that hyperscale data centres cause significant heating of surrounding land. While a previous study suggested data centres heat surrounding land by about 2 °C on average (up to 9 °C), reaching 10 kilometres away, 13 years of satellite data reveals that server waste […]
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