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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by ams6110 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:10AM (#17247757)
A trend in energy-efficient data centers is to maintain temperatures and humidity at near the maximum acceptable levels to reduce energy use for cooling and dehumidification.

Data centers used to be like walk-in refrigerators. Now the air is borderline uncomfortably warm and slightly "heavy" with humidity.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by Faaak on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:40PM (#17252075)
Excatly. I know one which only does free-cooling (they only have big fans; that's it).

Failure rate is a bit higher, but they are confident that their architecture is HA/redundant and of what they told me, it's cheaper to replace hardware (they got some DELLs "fresh-air" servers) than to cool the DC.

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by coffeeacc on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:24AM (#17247863)
Sounds like underground in the desert would be suitable?
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