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Data centers emitting more CO2 than thought: study
(japantoday.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Because it's considerably cheaper to do it this way and they're being allowed to do so. Why would they spend money building giant cooling towers when they can just dump the hot water into the river and then drain main supply for fresh supply.