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from the little-hideaway-beneath-the-waves dept.
Commercial underwater datacenter goes online this year:
A company called Subsea Cloud is planning to have a commercially available undersea datacenter operating off the coast of the US before the end of 2022, with other deployments planned for the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea.
Subsea, which says it has already deployed its technology with "a friendly government faction," plans to put its first commercial pod into the water before the end of this year near Port Angeles, Washington.
The company claims that placing its datacenter modules underwater can reduce power consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent, as well as lowering latency by allowing the datacenter to be located closer to metropolitan areas, many of which are located near the coast.
However, according to Subsea founder Maxie Reynolds, it can also deploy 1MW of capacity for as much as 90 percent less cost than it takes to get 1MW up and running at a land-based facility.
[...] But what happens if something goes wrong, or a customer wants to replace their servers? According to Subsea, customers can schedule periodic maintenance, including server replacement, and the company says that would take 4-16 hours for a team to get to the site, bring up the required pod(s), and replace any equipment.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by khallow on Monday September 05 2022, @04:55PM (2 children)
Finally, if you're building serious water-based power infrastructure anyway, it's a nice value add, for example, something to add to your off-shore wind generators.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2022, @08:33PM (1 child)
Obviously, you did not read the source. They say they use passive cooling.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday September 05 2022, @10:51PM
And? You can sink a lot more heat passively in ocean than you can to atmosphere.