2016 article... but still cool! *edit, no its not, I have too many tabs open and mixed it up with the blog post listed in the comments. ignore me
I think you may be thinking of something else. This was posted today, an hour ago, on the BBC.
Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
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#12> Additionally because there are no people, we can take all the oxygen and most of the water vapour out of the atmosphere which reduces corrosion, which is a significant problem in data centres
First time I hear corrosion is a problem in datacentres. I never noticed any corrosion on any machine at home or work. Does it have to do with the cooling of datacentres?
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#13Interesting idea but the maintenance must be painful. Let's say a hard disk fails, what do you do?
It's a fail-in-place data center. If a hard disk fails, you don't do anything. They used to replace telephony equipment all the time too, now it's just a locked room in a building. This is pushing data centers to be more hands-off.
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#14Is there a benefit over just putting it in a boat/coastal building and using water (perhaps pumped from some depth) for cooling?
The closest thing I remember is Google taking over an old paper mill in Finland that used a condenser sunk into a canal connected to the Baltic sea.
https://www.wired.com/2012/01/google-finland/ there should be a video with the details here.
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#15Interesting idea but the maintenance must be painful. Let's say a hard disk fails, what do you do?
Article says no maintenance - if it breaks its broken.
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#16Interesting idea but the maintenance must be painful. Let's say a hard disk fails, what do you do?
Overprovision with cold failover.
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#172016 article... but still cool! *edit, no its not, I have too many tabs open and mixed it up with the blog post listed in the comments. ignore me
I think you may be thinking of something else. This was posted today, an hour ago, on the BBC.
Im pretty sure I heard about this a couple of years ago too
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#18What would be its ecological impact?
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#19What would be its ecological impact? What if there are more of these data centers?
Re: Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
#20> Additionally because there are no people, we can take all the oxygen and most of the water vapour out of the atmosphere which reduces corrosion, which is a significant problem in data centres First time I hear corrosion is a problem in datacentres. I never noticed any corrosion on any machine at home or work. Does it have to do with the cooling of datacentres?
I wondered about this as well : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Schappert/publi...
Seems like its a combination of cooling data centres (flowing air) and the quality of the air being circulated. So if there are pollutants in the air they pose a danger to the circuitry.
Never occurred to me this was yet another thing to be wary of when running a data centre!