Arizona data centers raise Phoenix temperatures by up to 4 degrees – air cooled data centers are creating thermal plumes that exacerbate public health risks and compound heat output in towns and cities

Data center.

• Data centers are raising temperatures in towns and cities
• Researchers recorded variations as high as four degrees
• Considerations for heat need to be made when planning and constructing data centers

Data centers operate thousands of GPUs in order to solve computational problems, generating heat in the process. This heat then needs to be removed to keep the data center cool and working at maximum efficiency.