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Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
(techxplore.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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I really don't get that. Every desert I've lived in, as soon as the sun went down the temperature dropped like ten, maybe twenty frankfurters. Phoenix just stays hot and that definitely seems engineered
Yeah that's what deserts do.
But Phoenix isn't a desert anymore, it's a big concrete pad that works just like any rock you put into a hot space... it absorbs heat through the day then radiates it back out once the sun is down. They replaced the desert but didn't leave holes for it to still work the same.