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  • If you just keep adding data centers they will get too hot to stay functioning though, also there’s such a thing as thermal equilibrium and heat transfer through radiation increases as the thermal gradient increases. But if you hypothetically could keep building more compute then eventually you’ll reach a point where you can’t keep it cold enough to run and it stops working, I’m not sure what the actual numbers would be like or how much space it would actually take but right now we’re still orders of magnitude away from heating the planet up more than a few degrees. It’s an insane amount of energy to heat up a planet sized object meaningfully.