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Ocean water is already used to cool nuclear and coal power plants. I suspect these would radiate far more heat than a data centre. I'm surprised msft wouldn't
by fblp 6y ago
Ocean water is already used to cool nuclear and coal power plants. I suspect these would radiate far more heat than a data centre.
I'm surprised msft wouldn't propose to pipe the ocean water in like these power plants before going through the challenge of building under the ocean...
- zamadatix 6y agoI think they were trying to see if you could get away with 0 power/cooling infrastructure and how well it'd work if you could. Pumping vast amounts of water may be better than running a vast amount of active cooling but neither is as 0 as dumping it in the water and seeing what happens.
- teknopaul 6y agoI suspect one of Bill Gate's plans is to defend data against solar flares. Deeper the better.