Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

  • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Realistically probably not and as people have pointed out it’s better than them doing it into the air less efficiently but my point was not about a single data center it was more if it caught on and we started dumping thousands of these things in the ocean

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      1 year ago

      If we moved all data center cooling into the ocean, we would likely reduce the rate of ocean warming from burning fossil fuels (creating heat and CO2) used to power a data center that uses ~40% (on average) of its energy to cool the data center rather than for compute.