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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by loeg on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:09AM (#17244965)
Yeah. Fail in place over the service lifetime. When enough stuff is failed that it isn't worth keeping down there, you pull it up and refill it.
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by 49bc on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:17PM (#17258596)
Based on the picture, "pulling it up" looks like a fairly intensive task, requiring boats, persons, etc.

That kind of thing eats directly into the ROI for a datacenter. I doubt it competes with a static building with a bunch of solar panels on top.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by loeg on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:28PM (#17258704)
Might just fail-in-place, then. Although that looks pretty bad from an environmentalist perspective.
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