Cloud storage centers suck up a lot of energy. But when Microsoft tried putting data centers underwater a couple of years ago, it found the strategy greatly reduced energy use and improved performance. Now a U.S. startup called Subsea Cloud is pushing forward with similar plans. How much could underwater data centers do to alleviate emissions from our cloud usage? And what are the hurdles to getting there? Zoe Thomas hosts the first in Tech News Briefingβs four-part series on emerging climate technologies.
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water will leak in and drown electronics. then you will say chip prices increased
Evaporation is a cooing process.
Those data centers are not any greener, as they would have to dissipate the same amount of heat. It's simply cheaper to dump that heat in the water, as it has a density 1000 higher than the air, hence being just cheaper for the operators. The impact on the environment is the same, the only difference being that you need a cheaper cooler equipment, yet more special equipment for the underwater operations.
They will get nuked by russian submarine
This is amazing
have yall seen maxie reynolds? she was a underwater pilot in the oil and gas industry…. but she looks like a legit super model. it's kinda unfair how people hit the genetic lottery and also have the work ethic to boot, reminds me of super star athletes.
What happens if this scales? Wouldnβt sea water temps rise? At least locally?
Can we use this tech to help out those Micronesian nations? They have nothing but oceans around them and have struggled economically.
"Computers don't like the same environment that the humans like" is the all you need to know about the next Terminator movie. Does this guy know how prophetic he is?
A new scam
What if the bad actors just wanna destroy the pod?
Maxie sounds like she's underwater
I think the security risk was greatly understated. A foreign country could easily destroy these with a submarine while remaining undetected. If we do this, it should only be in internal bodies of water or protected harbors
This is a great idea, seeing that crypto cannot be minted when the power is down
Those companies were AMAZING!! I love the idea of the structures serving additionally as reefs as the stuff goes in and out of the pods. Both of these are inspiring!!
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Or we could dump the data centers directly into the ocean.
Really there is no "cloud" …its just somebody else's computer.
And how would you protect those data centres that are underwater. Any country with a capacity to have a submarine leave a depth charge beside one could take out a whole system.
This is reality. Britain has monitored many Russian submarines that follow the cables underwater.
There are plans out there to cut off communication in the event of an incursion. They have been practising now you want to send a whole data centre underwater.
Why donβt you just give them a key to the castle.
I asked chat gpt the question many of you have, here is it's response:
The total heat capacity of the ocean is approximately 3.3 x 10^22 joules/degree Celsius, while the total energy consumption of all data centers worldwide is estimated to be around 200-250 TWh per year, or approximately 7.2 x 10^17 joules per year. This means that even if all of the heat generated by data centers were somehow transferred directly to the ocean, it would only result in a temperature change of a few thousandths of a degree Celsius, which would be imperceptible.
Really? If Data centres is in underwater it should be no winter storm, earthquake, floods and any natural disasters cause data centres will send some signs of disasters so all of the peoples will prevent it
Simple answer….no
Hi Zoe, it's not late to say you, Merry Christmas Zoe and WSJ, hopefully tech news of WSJ will be successed foreverπ
We need Zoe Thomas sound for AI. Can we borrow it please π₯Ί ?
Now we should call cloud computing to ocean computing π
Can someone tell me the correct pronunciation, is it data or data?
I watched the same thing 3y ago.
How about doing something with the heat. Warm up some sand for the winter.
FYI computer hate saltwater
You can water cool data centers on dry land. Put the data center next to a large body of water and pump cold water into the data center and warm water back into the water. The problem with both solutions is warming the large body of water. Their demo was one cylinder. A midsize data center would be a hundred or more of these cylinders in one location all generating heat. A similar impact as a midsize electrical power station using the ocean or a river for cooling.
My computer fell out of the underwater floating tanks! Oops! I cant swim.
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Next headline:
underwater data centers lead to a 1Β°C rise in the oceans temperature π€£
Until there becomes too many of them and they end up heating the water
Yes the ocean is effectively an infinitely large heat sink but we said the same thing about fishing the ocean. 200 years later weβre over fishing
THE ALIEN UNDERWATER BASES OFF CALIFORNIA AND HAWAII WILL REALLY ENJOY THAT….