
Data Centers: An Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard
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Operational data centers are significantly warming adjacent residential neighborhoods, creating a new type of localized urban heat island that threatens public health and energy efficiency.
The phenomenon where urban areas experience significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas due to concentrated infrastructure and anthropogenic heat rejection.

Operational data centers are significantly warming adjacent residential neighborhoods, creating a new type of localized urban heat island that threatens public health and energy efficiency.