• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    There are already llava/magma vents in the ocean… But the thought of human heat being added makes me upset because it’s just another piece.

    • techt@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I get it, truly, but we’ve been dejecting heat to the ocean for a good while. Ocean water cools marine engines and equipment, and heck we use rivers to cool lots of things – even reactors, which ends up back in the ocean. Data center cooling might be one of the more responsible uses because it’s (hopefully) not leeching petroleum or radioactive byproducts into the water.

      I’m actually a little more upset now than when I started this comment.

      >:(