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Perhaps the most sustainable GCP region, do any other cloud providers offer cooling by icy ocean waters?
by thomasfedb 8y ago
Perhaps the most sustainable GCP region, do any other cloud providers offer cooling by icy ocean waters?
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThere was Microsoft sinking a data center container in the ocean a couple days ago.
- thomasfedb 8y agoThat was an experiment though, this is been "chugging" along for a while now.
- jusssi 8y agoFor most of the year, the ambient air temperature here is below 20°C, so you can just ventilate, no need to warm the oceans. There have also been some pilot projects to output the waste heat to municipal district heating systems, not sure if Google's center does that.
- Sami_Lehtinen 8y agoTelia Pitäjänmäki DC aims to waste heat recycling, this is green if something is. https://www.telia.fi/yrityksille/english/telia-helsinki-data-center https://www.telia.fi/yrityksille/english/telia-helsinki-data...
- thomasfedb 8y agoAs far as I can remember from high school, heat transfer is proportional to temperature difference, as well as coefficient of something-o-rather. I think icy water beats cool air on both of these.