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

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

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Our bodies generate heat and use evaporation to cool us down. Fans blow the hot air away from things to let cooler air take it’s place, and the hot object them spreads some of it’s heat to the now cooler air. Then the fan blows THAT hot air away and the cycle continues.

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