‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering — Datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 minutes

Damn! As if living in Slough wasn’t already bad enough!

EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 3 hours

Maybe put the data center up north in a Nordic or Scandinavian country?

hanke@feddit.nu · 1 hour

We don’t want that here either.

A 9° increase will fuck us and our surroundings over just as well as anywhere else.

EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 1 hour

I was thinking we put one massive data center on Greenland to thaw out the ice sheet.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 19 minutes

Mr president, that you?

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 3 hours

That area is reserved for the seed vaults

EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 1 hour

But the vault shifts with the ice 🧊? Soon all the seeds will float away… 🏝️

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 1 hour

Seed vaults are built into bedrock

stenAanden@feddit.dk · 2 hours

YUP. We have that here.