The researchers are trying to attribute the heat increase to the servers running within the data centers, when we know from other research that this likely isn't the case. We have other explanations, they just didn't fit the narrative for this story.Many datacenters have switched to closed loop cooling systems & have realised that the heat the servers produce is actually a resource they can sell, whether through heat exchange programs or municipal heat networks, or to industrial users who often need heat. Not capturing that heat your datacenters are producing would literally be throwing money away, burning cash.
