>what is the direct ecological impact of doing this at scale Great question. Without real data it's hard to know for sure. I do think that it would be somewhat

>what is the direct ecological impact of doing this at scale Great question. Without real data it's hard to know for sure. I do think that it would be somewhat negligible though. Considering we have heat vents and underwater volcanoes in the ocean that kick out insane amounts of heat, I can't see datacenters having a ton of impact. Will it affect the immediate vicinity, probably. Will it affect the ocean at large, I doubt it. Unless we start sinking exaflops of CPU power into the ocean, I wouldn't worry too much.