This is just until they can start putting them in space, behind the moon.
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Nothing better than destroying the planet for a quick buck off a cheap grift.
Chinese capitalism <---> Planetary destruction <---> USA capitalism
Didn’t Microsoft do this a decade or two ago already? Or was that just exploring the idea?
All I hear is “China is heating up the ocean too, ON PURPOSE!”
America is putting data centers in the deserts of Arizona because it’s fucking stupid.
If we can't stop the energy from being used anyway, why not make a desalination plant out of it too? 🤦
Right, humans are actually gonna boil the ocean... aren't we.
Rain World (2017)
There are already llava/magma vents in the ocean... But the thought of human heat being added makes me upset because it's just another piece.
Yes and there is already a sun shining above ground so global warming is no problem either.. smh.
I get it, truly, but we've been dejecting heat to the ocean for a good while. Ocean water cools marine engines and equipment, and heck we use rivers to cool lots of things -- even reactors, which ends up back in the ocean. Data center cooling might be one of the more responsible uses because it's (hopefully) not leeching petroleum or radioactive byproducts into the water.
I'm actually a little more upset now than when I started this comment.
>:(
Sounds like a great idea. OTOH, impossible to calculate the damage to local ecosystems vs. traditional methods.
Totally uneducated guess: Probably better? Cooling is a major power suck, as well as consuming water.
Roughly 40 percent of the electricity consumed by an ordinary data center is for this purpose.
We're draining aquifers that take thousands of years to build up. Don't read up on that, it's horrifying. So if we have to have data centers, I'm gambling that underwater is the lesser of two evils.
Microsoft and Google both prototyped it. FWIW, they didn't take it to production once the data was collected.
IIRC, cooling worked fine if placed in the right place with circulation, but maintenance and part replacement was a major issue.
maintenance and part replacement was a major issue
That was my first thought: who's going to be the underwater IT guy?
Edit: as an interesting coincidence, I just interviewed an engineer today who has rescue diver on his resume with 16 years of diving experience
Quick! The oceans aren’t heating up fast enough! 🤦♂️
Microsoft did it first
Cool