The debate framed here as the difference between Paris and Los Angeles reflects my overall ambivalence about air conditioning's role in the climate crisis: https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/right-to-cooling-europe-heat-wave/
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AFAICT, both of our societies (American and European) are currently putting more money and political capital into air conditioning GPUs than into climate-proofing homes for vulnerable populations, so maybe we could just cut back on data centers and free up some capacity for making sure people don't die of heat exhaustion.
