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I'm still not sure why one would want to place the data center at the bottom of the ocean. I would think that the disadvantage of not being able to perform mai
by cjfont 11y ago
I'm still not sure why one would want to place the data center at the bottom of the ocean. I would think that the disadvantage of not being able to perform maintenance for 5 years would be more significant -- can't they just create the data center near a water source and pump the water through pipes that run across a heat exchange on the backside of the servers?
- m_mueller 11y agoYour idea is what's being done at the largest computing center in Switzerland, the CSCS. They pump water from the relatively deep Lake Lugano [1]. Europe's currently fastest supercomputer (world No. 7) is hosted there. [1] http://www.cscs.ch/cscs/an_innovative_centre/cooling_system/index.html http://www.cscs.ch/cscs/an_innovative_centre/cooling_system/... [2] http://www.top500.org/lists/2015/11/ http://www.top500.org/lists/2015/11/
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI assume it is for space reasons. You could put down a data center in a harbor, for example. The amount of metal that would be required to scale this model to that size, however, seems excessive.
- aaron695 11y agoEnvironmentally pumping heat into a river would not be though acceptable I would think, so the water source probably is the ocean, running pipe across beach front property might not be as doable. > perform maintenance for 5 years would be more significant They would be built like Google, you don't waste money doing maintenance. I think the main issue is it's unusual and as such costs of complexity and legal come in.