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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] 3 points 11 months ago

Ehh, it could sound that way (green washing). I remember an article from 1 or 2 years ago where Microsoft did a "pilot" test of this and the general consensus is that in a datacenter

while you fix part a you break part b of the identical server next to it.
Moore's law means that every 5 years or so you spend more on electricity and storage than you would for the smaller more efficient hardware
having 0 human interaction and 0 added dust and 0 oxygen and the ocean at 40 decrees farenheight meant that no additional cooling required. (Maybe some cpu airflow to the external 40° air)

Time (and investments) will tell if this is the solution to costly land based air heat pumps to cool datacenters with human interactions.