"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
The heat from something like a datacenter will be far more localized and could damage the immediate area. I’m not saying they’ll magically warm the entire ocean any more than they would on land dumping waste heat into the atmosphere, but local temperature changes could have an effect.
I’m not in favor of megawatt data centers being used for mostly-bullshit AI in general, but as I said “if they’re going to be built anyway”, then they’ll do less harm in the ocean than most other places.
(That’s assuming they can avoid problems due to saltwater corrosion.)
The heat from something like a datacenter will be far more localized and could damage the immediate area. I’m not saying they’ll magically warm the entire ocean any more than they would on land dumping waste heat into the atmosphere, but local temperature changes could have an effect.
I’m not in favor of megawatt data centers being used for mostly-bullshit AI in general, but as I said “if they’re going to be built anyway”, then they’ll do less harm in the ocean than most other places.
(That’s assuming they can avoid problems due to saltwater corrosion.)