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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 JoeMerchant on Monday September 05 2022, @11:40PM (2 children)
They only have to keep the access panels and lifting points free of biofouling, a crust of stuff is probably beneficial elsewhere. If they put the access panels on the bottom, that will probably keep the growth to a minimum, and if they're lifting with buoyant bags - it's amazing how much uplift those can generate.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday September 06 2022, @12:33AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday September 06 2022, @11:02AM
Good point, although the marine A/C on our boat stays barnacle free even while the toxic painted hull requires regular cleaning... With all the power going into the servers, pumping a little water through some copper pipes and heat exchangers to the interior liquid would seem trivial and sensible and in colder waters more than enough heat exchange to let the servers "passively cool" from there.
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