Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater

Re:Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater by rascul on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:24PM (#13702731)

Doesn't work. DigitalOcean has been working on this for some time and their Atlantis datacenter still isn't open.

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/announcing-atlanti...

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Re:Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater by sgk284 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:38PM (#13702801)

For those who might miss the date on that blog post, it's an April Fool's joke.

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Re:Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater by Groxx on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:01AM (#13703149)

You say that, but it sounds like a win/win from where I'm sitting:

>Our investigation was a great success: not only were we able to reduce our electricity costs by 35%, but we discovered our high-density SSD storage was even more dense at 87atm!

Time to replicate / H2O-as-a-service it.

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Re:Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater by dumbsecreport on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:59PM (#13702907)

thank you for providing a safe haven free of aprils fools trickery for all of us sensitive people

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Re:Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater by cpursley on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:44AM (#13705393)

Dude, note the date. That is an April Fools joke.

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