Re:Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center
by hvidgaard on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:32AM
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That may be a part of it, but I also think a major component is cooling. Cooling account for 30-40% of the running cost of a datacenter, so building with access to enough water, they've essentially cut the running cost with to 2/3 of conventional datacenters.
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