I really hope you’re right. I also hope there’s an opportunity to observe and measure the impact to confirm.

Yeah, fully agree.

It’s also likely to impact more living things (plankton, seaweed, fish, reefs) in the same space, given the locations likely to be considered, either due to biodensity or increased heat spread because of high water conductivity.

True, but that’s my point: there will be local impacts that aren’t evenly distributed.

The total effect is negligible, but even with high conductivity, local impact could be destructive enough. Even with an infinitely large copper pan, I wouldn’t put my hand on the part that’s on a stove’s burner.

If you take local temperatures of the ocean at different latitudes, they won’t all be the mean temperature of the ocean. It isn’t a single massive heat sink.

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix