Eli5: Why do they say windchill doesn’t affect objects yet fans are used for cooling?

Question

Basically title, you always hear “windchill only affects humans” but we use fans to cool things all the time?

In: Physics

Answer 1

While wind chill will affect any object that’s warmer than the air, the numeric wind chill “apparent” or “feels like” temperatures reported by weather services are tuned to humans specifically.