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by itishappy
953 days ago
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> Oceans are insanely large (citation needed) heat sinks. If my math is right (hopefully), and assuming there's no cooling (hopefully not), it would take 790 billion years for Microsoft's datacenter to raise the temperature of the ocean by 1 degree. (1.426e21 kg * 4184 J/kg) / (240000 J/s * 31536000 s/yr) |
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https://web.archive.org/web/20180223071740/https://blogs.ora...
"Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans."
- straight from the horse's mouth (that's Jeff Bonwick, who created ZFS).