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croesyesterday at 1:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

That’s not what they are doing

> capture heat directly at the source and transport it to outdoor dry coolers, essentially large radiator coils positioned outside the building.

The heat goes into the air


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customguyyesterday at 7:22 PM

The correct place to bring that up is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672306

Dumping hot water into rivers harms ecosystems regardless of whether anyone happens to do it right now, and asking for a citation for that is such a WTF in and of itself we really shouldn't gloss over it.

petit_robertyesterday at 2:47 PM

>The heat goes into the air

Can confirm : I'm reading this from France, we're in the 8th day of the meanest heatwave the country has known since records exist, and it's expected to last two more.