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I remember there was a proposal a while back to put mini data centers in the ocean to take advantage of sea water for cooling. The maintenance plan? When a driv
by andrewflnr 6y ago
I remember there was a proposal a while back to put mini data centers in the ocean to take advantage of sea water for cooling. The maintenance plan? When a drive or server breaks, just stop using it. Your orchestration software can handle hardware failures, right? The plan for servers in spaaaaace could be similar.
- sterlind 6y agoI think MS did this, from an article I read. The waste heat comment is spot-on (vacuum is a great insulator), not to mention latency/availability (are you in geosynchronous orbit? if not you'll need a very complex handoff) and the sheer exponential cost of lifting racks to orbit (Tsiolkovsky equation isn't going anywhere soon) or the complexity of assembling pods in orbit.. such a bad idea. Sea though, that makes sense. No exponential expenses, free water cooling, literal continental edge colos, cheap real estate in expensive areas. I think it'll catch on with the other big clouds like shipping containers did back in the day.