> I sure hope they're not planning on just pumping it back into the Baltic Of course they are. Direct ocean cooling is common for power plants much larger than

> I sure hope they're not planning on just pumping it back into the Baltic Of course they are. Direct ocean cooling is common for power plants much larger than a data center, and the effect on water temperatures overall is trivial. For some perspective. This data center may produce 10^7-10^8 watts of heat. A power plant may produce 10^9-10^10 W. The solar heating of the Baltic sea is 3x10^13 W. (337,000 km^2 x 100 W/m^2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Insolation.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Insolation.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea