From the summary:
"Recognizing that surface temperature could be affected by other factors, the researchers chose to focus their investigation on data centers located away from densely populated areas."
You'll have to look at the study data to see if that completely addresses your concern, but unsurprisingly the professional researchers have put some thought into what controls a study like this might need.
Since concrete buildings and paved parking lots are part of the urban heat island effect, yes it does.
The question could be phrased more generally: how much of the *data* heat island effect is because it's a data center and not another type of building.
The answer, apparently: a lot.
From page 5:
"These results are dramatically impressive, especially considering that the typical LST increase caused by the quintessential example of compound of anthropogenic activities - the urban heat island effect - has been estimated in the 4 and 6 [degrees] C interval. This apparent step function emphasize the clear effect of AI hyperscalers on their surrounding areas, so much that it can match the impact of "islands" of higher temperatures: therefore, we call this the data heat island effect."
On the one side you'll put a really big description and instructions.
The other side will have the microscopic data.
Then when somebody uses them as floor tiles, they'll alternate the sides in a checkerboard pattern. It'll look really neat.
One of the advantages of QR codes is that they are based on visible images. They'll just need a camera and some simple software.
Including a spec, maybe in pictographic form like the Voyager record's description of a phonograph, would make it very likely that someone in the future could interpret a QR code.
Provided, of course, that they have an electron microscope...
Hey, you're the one who introduced militias this thread, with numbers and citations and everything. I was mostly pointing out how absurd the ubiquitous attempts to redefine 'regulated' are.
Since Congress can define who is in the militia, the sequence could go like this:
- make everyone a member of the militia.
- assert Congress's Article 1 power to arm the militia, and define the exact arms that militia members are allowed to keep and bear.
- halberds for everyone!
Unlikely of course, but expect to see something like this when someone attempts to buy some M777s or their equivalent.
Regulated, the term under discussion here, is based on regulate, so the meaning of regulator isn't really relevant.
But even if it was relevant, the original meaning would apply:
- regulator:
- First Known Use: 1648, in the meaning of "one who regulates."
That clause comes later. The first part gives the establishment power to Congress:
[The Congress shall have Power] To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia
The founding fathers were concerned about a terrifying all powerful government
[citation needed]
It could be that the founding fathers were more worried about slave revolts:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2...
As another poster noted above, from Article One:
[The Congress shall have Power] To provide for organizing, arming, and
disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be
employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States
respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of
training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Sure sounds like Congress can decide who is in a militia and can change the membership at any time, e.g. by disbanding the 'unorganized militia'.
On one hand, we have a paper with multiple citations, including the Federalist papers.
On the other hand, we have you waving your hands around saying nuh-uh.
As this link notes, words can have multiple meanings. In the context of the writing of the second amendment, we can be fairly sure they meant regulated in its original meaning ( see note 1), and that they were not simply imploring militias to keep their uniforms neat.
https://propagandaprofessor.ne...
(1) https://www.merriam-webster.co...
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin regulatus, past participle of regulare, from Latin regula rule
First Known Use: 15th century, in the meaning 'to govern or direct according to rule'
"But history confirms that 'well regulated' has always meant regulated by the government."
Trump will use the money to "settle" his own lawsuit:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18...
U.S. Citizens held Thursday for 43 hours after changing their flights.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-ci...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...
DHS is claiming they were released after 90 minutes. That is directly contradicted the accounts of the six people detained, by local police, and by phone records.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce
