Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

Re:Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two y... by fblp on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:50PM (#24472305)

Ocean water is already used to cool nuclear and coal power plants. I suspect these would radiate far more heat than a data centre.

I'm surprised msft wouldn't propose to pipe the ocean water in like these power plants before going through the challenge of building under the ocean...

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Re:Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two y... by zamadatix on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:00PM (#24472421)

I think they were trying to see if you could get away with 0 power/cooling infrastructure and how well it'd work if you could. Pumping vast amounts of water may be better than running a vast amount of active cooling but neither is as 0 as dumping it in the water and seeing what happens.

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Re:Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two y... by teknopaul on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:17PM (#24473970)

I suspect one of Bill Gate's plans is to defend data against solar flares. Deeper the better.

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