Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
China begins building underwater data center with performance equal to 6 million PCs — aims to save 122 million KWh of electricity and nearly ten soccer fields of land | Data centers find refuge at…::China Central Television reports that China has added another data module to the country’s commercial underwater data center (UDC) off Hainan Island.
On site access would be so expensive
oops we forgot to plug in a cable better hop in the submersible to keep up them 9’s babyyy
Don’t worry, the OceanGate Titan will get you there!
Not if we build underwater cities. Rapture incoming!
That’s a cool idea. The bottom of the ocean is a pretty hostile environment though, it better be very well engineered to have any sort of longevity.
It’s 35m deep - for comparison recreational scuba divers go up to 30m deep and professional scuba divers up to 60m deep.
It will have to be well engineered and difficult to repair compared to a land facility, but nothing compared to like the space station.
Very cool idea, after 25 years there should be significant cost savings overall.
The space station only has to withstand 1atm of pressure and isn’t subjected to anywhere near as much risk of corrosion.
except that they can’t just repair or replace any hardware. and even if nothing breaks, in 25 years the hardware will be incredibly obsolete. have you tried using a 25 year old computer to do something as basic as browsing the web?
I wonder what distro they run 🤔
Thank goodness it doesn’t have windows.
Ultramarine Linux of course!
We sink for Macragge!
How would it compare to Mint for a beginner user doing mostly web based work and gaming?
equal to 6 million PCs
That has literally no value. My Pi is probably equal to 6 million PCs - if you count C64s as PCs.
Ten soccer fields you say?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Great. Now we’re just apparently directly warming the oceans instead of indirectly.
scarabic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It will take more streaming porn to boil the ocean than even you could watch.
DrM@feddit.de 11 months ago
From one Datacenter? Yes. If you put all datacenters into the sea? Definitely not. And if the Bitcoin scumbags decide that this is a good idea and built huge mining farms underwarer it’s even worse. Datacenters are one of the biggest contributors to energy need already, taking up 1-1.3% of global energy demand. That’s no joke
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is that a challenge I hear?
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 months ago
Bro I got some bad news for you about how ships, submaines, and costal power plants cool themselves.