Quoting Matthias Urlichs (2026-08-19 16:34:14) > On 19.08.26 10:27, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > On 18.08.26 23:21, Zlatan Todoric wrote: > >> (some cities reported already an average increase of 4C > >> because of AI datacenters), > > Source? IMHO that number is highly suspect. > > I asked Claude how fast the air above a 100-MW data center rises, > assuming sea level, 20 °C and no cross wind. The answer is (roughly) 5…8 > m/s, or Beaufort 4, and it'd be less than 21°C warm at 500m (~1500ft). [...] > NB: Yeah I asked an AI. So sue me, but I don't have the time, or the > motivation, or the physics background, to calculate that kind of thing > myself. Also, if I did it'd most likely require more power to do it than > Claude Sonnet. > > NB2: IMHO this kind of AI answer is rather unlikely to be diluted by > cross-training. While I agree that self-reinforcing AI sloppiness is a > major concern, esp. as far as textual output is concerned, that should > be a fixable problem. If nothing else succeeds (Pangram comes to mind > …), well, we can simply not train on prose written after 2022. Or 2026, > given that right now Pangram is still reasonably reliable.
Did you try ask Claude the very same thing you were told, rather than feed it a more narrow assumption about *how* cities heat up? Let me Kagi that for you": https://assistant.kagi.com/share/5cbdf418-2a4d-456d-b26b-e851f191623b For those not wanting to use AI, go straight to the first of the sources for that rambling, which is about a 4 degree change of a city: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-centers-nearby-temperatures-degrees-phoenix.html - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
signature.asc
Description: signature
