China begins building underwater data center with performance equal to 6 million PCs — aims to save 122 million KWh of electricity and nearly ten soccer fields of land | Data centers find refuge at...

3 years ago by L4sBot to c/technology

Data centers find refuge at the bottom of the ocean.

China begins building underwater data center with performance equal to 6 million PCs — aims to save 122 million KWh of electricity and nearly ten soccer fields of land | Data centers find refuge at...::China Central Television reports that China has added another data module to the country's commercial underwater data center (UDC) off Hainan Island.

just_another_person 62 points 3 years ago

Great. Now we're just apparently directly warming the oceans instead of indirectly.

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scarabic 27 points 3 years ago

It will take more streaming porn to boil the ocean than even you could watch.

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DrM 13 points 3 years ago

From one Datacenter? Yes. If you put all datacenters into the sea? Definitely not. And if the Bitcoin scumbags decide that this is a good idea and built huge mining farms underwarer it's even worse. Datacenters are one of the biggest contributors to energy need already, taking up 1-1.3% of global energy demand. That's no joke

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LwL 24 points 3 years ago

Going off google the energy required to heat the oceans by 1 degree is approximately 5.4*10^21 kj, or 1389 trillion GWh, or the energy output of over 170 million nuclear power plants over an entire year. Safe to say putting all the server farms in the world in there still isn't going to make a dent.

It might affect local temperature by a relevant amount if there's too many in one spot perhaps, and that could be pretty bad. But generally, saving energy is a good thing.

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rediot -1 points 3 years ago

The temperature of the ocean may not change but the heat is dissipated into the atmosphere, making extreme weather events more likely.

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Tangent5280 6 points 3 years ago

Is that a challenge I hear?

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Rooskie91 1 point 3 years ago

Bro I got some bad news for you about how ships, submaines, and costal power plants cool themselves.

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ghewl 52 points 3 years ago

On site access would be so expensive

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naught 32 points 3 years ago

oops we forgot to plug in a cable better hop in the submersible to keep up them 9's babyyy

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warmaster 18 points 3 years ago

Don't worry, the OceanGate Titan will get you there!

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WindowsEnjoyer 6 points 3 years ago

It worked last 5 dives just great!. We can relax, it wouldn't break on 6th dive, right??

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MonkderZweite 5 points 3 years ago

Not if we build underwater cities. Rapture incoming!

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Gigan 21 points 3 years ago

That's a cool idea. The bottom of the ocean is a pretty hostile environment though, it better be very well engineered to have any sort of longevity.

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FaeDrifter 30 points 3 years ago

It's 35m deep - for comparison recreational scuba divers go up to 30m deep and professional scuba divers up to 60m deep.

It will have to be well engineered and difficult to repair compared to a land facility, but nothing compared to like the space station.

Very cool idea, after 25 years there should be significant cost savings overall.

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sir_reginald 10 points 3 years ago

except that they can't just repair or replace any hardware. and even if nothing breaks, in 25 years the hardware will be incredibly obsolete. have you tried using a 25 year old computer to do something as basic as browsing the web?

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grue 9 points 3 years ago

The space station only has to withstand 1atm of pressure and isn't subjected to anywhere near as much risk of corrosion.

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helenslunch 13 points 3 years ago

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LunchEnjoyer 10 points 3 years ago

I wonder what distro they run 🤔

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ook_the_librarian 14 points 3 years ago

Thank goodness it doesn't have windows.

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pastermil 9 points 3 years ago

Ultramarine Linux of course!

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SkybreakerEngineer 2 points 3 years ago

We sink for Macragge!

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Droechai 0 points 3 years ago

How would it compare to Mint for a beginner user doing mostly web based work and gaming?

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pastermil 2 points 3 years ago

I was mostly joking as I've never used that distro. I've used Linux Mint and it's pretty much suited for everything you'd need.

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Ransack 0 points 3 years ago

Try it. You're asking for something subjective and dependent on hardware and use case.

For example I had a ton of trouble with mint. I tried Ubuntu and it was okay. I then tried popos and have been running it for over 3 years now and I've had maybe one large hiccup but nothing but a stable system.

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Droechai 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'll just have to try it out :)

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BetaDoggo_ 8 points 3 years ago

Ten soccer fields you say?

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30p87 1 point 2 years ago

equal to 6 million PCs

That has literally no value. My Pi is probably equal to 6 million PCs - if you count C64s as PCs.

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