The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.

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      3 hours ago

      For temperature, not really. Both Celsius and Fahrenheit are useful for different things.

      Fahrenheit is great for what we feel (it’s related to body temperature for the high end, and the freezing point of brine on 0).

      Celsius is great for cooking, or applications where you care about what water is doing (0 is freezing, 100 is boiling).

      Neither uses different scales, like other metric units increasing by 10s (at least, I’ve never seen anything like kC). If you’re doing that, you’re using Kelvin, which is a fundamental base temperature, where 0 is actually 0, which makes more sense for physics and math, but is less useful for what we feel.

      I think the US should switch, just to make it easier to communicate, and other metric scales actually are better. C and F are both equally useful for different things though. Neither is actually a better scale.