On: Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater

[beaconstudios]

a datacenter at the poles might also contribute to melting the ice.

[Cleisthenes → beaconstudios]

More or less than burning fossil fuels to keep the data center cool at non-polar latitudes?

[NegativeLatency → Cleisthenes]

Less than or equal to the same amount of energy would be dissipated, but it would be closer to the actual ice.

[mehwoot → NegativeLatency]

But global warming isnt caused by energy dissipation, its caused by the greenhouse effect.

[titanomachy → mehwoot]

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Humans producing heat is not the problem; humans producing pollution is.

[beaconstudios → Cleisthenes]

it would contribute less co2 into the atmosphere, at the cost of physically and directly melting the ice. All-in-all it seems like a poor trade-off.