• @[email protected]
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    -788 months ago

    It’s AI, cloud storage, and cellular internet. That’s a whole lot of microwave radiation and straight thermal radiation that didn’t exist ten years ago, and it’s growing fast. The additional heat build-up from our tech is outstripping our ability to compensate for it.

      • @cucumber_sandwich
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        -28 months ago

        Radiation from communication infrastructure is hardly waste heat.

          • @cucumber_sandwich
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            -28 months ago

            It’s whole purpose is to radiate specific radio waves…

            • @[email protected]
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              8 months ago

              Yes, and it’s not infrared.

              Do you think the purpose of telecom systems is to produce heat? What the hell do you think waste heat even is?

              Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat

              • @cucumber_sandwich
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                18 months ago

                Yes of course they proceduce waste heat as well. I was referring to the microwave part in the root comment…

                • @[email protected]
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                  18 months ago

                  Ahh right I see, I got very confused by the way you worded the comment but that may well have been a problem here on the receiving end

    • @SoleInvictus
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      418 months ago

      Please stop spreading misinformation. You’re on the internet. Kindly fact check yourself in the future. It’s better for everyone, including you!

      • @Plopp
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        88 months ago

        But fact checking utilizes CPU cycles and thus heats up the planet!

    • @LeafOnTheWind
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      358 months ago

      Well that’s the stupidest thing I’ve seen yet today