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China 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.com)
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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago

The world-first part must be the wind-power thing.

We've had small offshore data centers for years, passively cooled but powered by nuclear energy.

(And if you're still not getting the joke, let's discuss how a nuke sub would cool its massive computing power. Big boats are like floating data centers; submarines even more advanced. )