Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

Re:Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two y... by Etheryte on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:52AM (#24471607)

The orders of magnitude are wildly different, even at large server farm scale. According to some estimates, capturing merely ~0.3% of the available energy from the Gulf Stream would be enough to supply all of Florida with electricity [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_current_power#Energy_po...

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Re:Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two y... by pbhjpbhj on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:53PM (#24474349)

I'm curious as to whether we'll ever have wind/ocean current energy capture that's sufficient to disturb things enough to cause detrimental (or maybe beneficial) effects.

Supposedly, the recent - apparent - changes in UK climate are due to changes in trade winds through global climate change. There might be small perturbations that we make that inadvertently make for large changes in major wind/current systems?

I'd guess someone has tried to model these things.

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