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Few companies could and would throw money at a project like this. Environmentally friendly datacenters are needed.
by xyproto 8y ago
Few companies could and would throw money at a project like this. Environmentally friendly datacenters are needed.
- joering2 8y agoSomething tells me that thausands of heat exchangers where you produce hot and exachange it for cold, at the bottom of oceans which already are recording highest temperatures in modern history, is not much of envrionment friendly.
- hazbot 8y agoI would be very surprised if the waste heat had any significant impact more than a few meters/yards from the container. Water has a really high heat capacity and the oceans are large. Almost all the energy that is heating up the ocean is coming from the sun - we've just put a thicker blanket round the earth to trap more heat. Waste heat from human activity is a tiny part of the global energy balance.
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoDumping heat in the ocean is not environmentally friendly. That heat could have been used to heat up buildings.
- xyproto 8y agoAlmost all the energy we have, ultimately comes from the sun. As long as we can covert energy in a clean way, there is nothing inherently environmentally unfriendly about spending energy on one thing that could have been used for another thing.
- HappyRobot 8y agoYes, but we need to be careful when we discharge excess heat. The sudden addition of unnatural heat can be an issue for ocean ecosystems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution