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Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras by Hysterisis on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:33PM (#17755416)
Seems like it would be really annoying to service if something breaks and needs to be replaced.
Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras by pandapower2 on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:41PM (#17755446)
Guess you would just remotely disable any part that breaks. Once enough stuff has broken you just replace the whole thing.

Designing it would be a little bit like designing something that is going into space. You'd need to be very confident in your ability to remotely manage it over a long time frame.

Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras by kerng on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:36PM (#17755425)
I'd imagine they would want to build this cheap enough to just replace the entire thing when something goes wrong. Anything else seems very impractical.
Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras by Qworg on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:23AM (#17755750)
It fails in place, then you replace the internals every five years as a single unit. After 20 years, you recycle the whole thing.