The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world

ArXi:2603.20897v1 Announce Type: cross The strong and continuous increase of AI-based services leads to the steady proliferation of AI data centres worldwide with the unavoidable escalation of their power consumption. It is unknown how this energy demand for computational purposes will impact the surrounding environment. Here, we focus our attention on the heat dissipation of AI hyperscalers.