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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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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If every data centre was passively cooled in the ocean it wouldn't change temps by even 0.01 degrees. The Sun blasts an entire half of the planet with an absurd amount of energy every day. Energy, which technically originated from the sun, is just converted and being utilized to do work.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Not the same thing. The sun doesn't concentrate the power in already hifhly populated gulfs and bays where these would be. We're not building something in the middle of Atlantic Ocean.