Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool
zerofk@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Didn’t Microsoft do this a decade or two ago already? Or was that just exploring the idea?
Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool
zerofk@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Didn’t Microsoft do this a decade or two ago already? Or was that just exploring the idea?
schema@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It was to study its effectiveness and sustainability iirc, not meant to be done for actual production at that point.
I guess one major downside is that if a component breaks, be it something simple like a capacitor, there is no easy way to replace it, so it has to be designed with that in mind.