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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Not really. It's not like there's a nuke reactor in there.

There isn't a nuke reactor in there, is there?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Now you're talkin!

At the deployment site, a remotely operated vehicle retrieved a cable containing the fiber optic and power wiring from the seafloor and brought it to the surface where it was checked and attached to the datacenter, and the datacenter powered on.

Sadly, it sounds like power is coming from the shore.

Underwater datacenters could also serve as anchor tenants for marine renewable energy such as offshore wind farms or banks of tidal turbines, allowing the two industries to evolve in lockstep.

But I think this is their plan for energy in the future.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The thought of these plus tidal generators makes my day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the Orkney Islands are also experimenting with tidal generators (Wikipedia/European Marine Energy Centre), though the weather there is ideal for wind energy.

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