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New Plan to Power Data-Hungry AI: Sink Server Farms into the San Francisco Bay
- cranberryturkey 2y agoso you would be in the ocean not the cloud?
- more_corn 2y agoThis has been tried. Most recently by Microsoft. It’s not bad for energy efficiency and cooling, sucks for repair though. You basically run the servers sealed till enough of them fail that you toss the pod and start again.
- ItCouldBeWorse 2y agoQuestion: Wouldn't it make sense, to build servers into the north side surface of sky-scrapers? There would be tremendous usage for those updraft winds and they could get solar power from the south sides shades..