sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoChina says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square129linkfedilinkarrow-up1324arrow-down112
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minus-squareNoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 days agoI wonder how cost effective this will be in the long run considering how much they’ll have to deal with corrosion. I imagine the maintenance will become pretty overwhelming in a year or two.
minus-squarePieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoMicrosoft has been experimenting with underwater DCs for close to ten years now… I don’t think corrosion is much of an issue as it’s water tight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoLol, after a prototype proves the viability, they built a larger scale version, more capable, more power, and they use it to run folding@home…
minus-squareaphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoKinda like that dam they keep having to increase the cost of every year.
I wonder how cost effective this will be in the long run considering how much they’ll have to deal with corrosion. I imagine the maintenance will become pretty overwhelming in a year or two.
Microsoft has been experimenting with underwater DCs for close to ten years now…
I don’t think corrosion is much of an issue as it’s water tight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
Lol, after a prototype proves the viability, they built a larger scale version, more capable, more power, and they use it to run folding@home…
Kinda like that dam they keep having to increase the cost of every year.