In a separate statement, Microsoft told DCD: “While we don’t currently have data centers in the water, we will continue to use Project Natick as a research platform to explore, test, and validate new concepts around data center reliability and sustainability, for example with liquid immersion.”
Last year, China's Highlander deployed a 1,433-ton commercial underwater data center off the Hainan island coast.
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certified sinonist - 3mon
but at what cost?
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marduk @lemmy.sdf.org - 3mon
Ocean gets warmer, seems like a win-win
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DexterRSX - 3mon
Isn't that supposed to be a bad thing according to literally every scientist I've ever listened to
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Orcinus - 3mon
I heard about this. I once asked Deepseek if it'd rather be cooled by molten salt and it said it'd be overkill.
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China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-boom-with-undersea-data-centers/https://archive.ph/uCFVN
I remember Microsoft experimented with this back in 2020, and while they said it saw successes, it doesn't appear they've done much after the proof-of-concept.
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but at what cost?
Ocean gets warmer, seems like a win-win
Isn't that supposed to be a bad thing according to literally every scientist I've ever listened to
I heard about this. I once asked Deepseek if it'd rather be cooled by molten salt and it said it'd be overkill.