Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency

Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by 0110011 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:31AM (#17245050)

Wondering how long it will be until we have cloud data centers in space... Seems like it could be useful to offer a flexible computing infrastructure to small sats and science missions without requiring ground comms.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by simon_acca on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:51AM (#17245155)

Actually getting rid of excess energy is a huge problem in space since it's pretty empty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Cont...

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by 0110011 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:59AM (#17247664)

Totally. It's the difficulties of putting lots of computing resources in space (heat, power, serviceability, radiation) that actually makes it attractive for selling compute time. Only one company needs to solve those problems and others can leverage that work for a fee. If it was easy, there wouldn't be a business opportunity.

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