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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by adrianmonk on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:17PM (#17250723)
It's tough in hot climates. There's plenty of heat to go around. And there are lots of people who live in hot climates who, for latency reasons, need servers near them.

Thus there are kind of two cases to solve for. You can stick a data center in Northern Europe, and that heat might be valuable enough that your approach could be to try to reclaim it. If you stick a data center in Singapore, you'd better focus on generating less heat in the first place or finding better ways to get rid of it.

Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by therealdrag0 on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:55AM (#17281916)
Even in Singapore the max sea temperature is 32C, which seems cool enough to cool a data-center.