Data center build out is deeply unpopular with many residents due to noise, pollution and increase electricity costs.
To solve this problem, some are trying to build underwater or even in space!
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Civil engineers being civil engineers. All that infrastructure to reduce 22.8% of power demand.
The system also uses seawater as a natural cooling source through a circulating copper-pipe heat exchange design, reducing electricity consumption by 22.8 percent, eliminating freshwater use entirely and cutting land usage by more than 90 percent.
There are strong incentives to make the software more efficient. My uneducated guess is that right now there’s peak demand for computational power because software is soooo inefficient that it needs all this power. But, this is no negative criticism, all new things are clunky while being developed. As software is improved, computational demand will reduce, the 22% will be seen from a different perspective.
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Yes, I hope for our planet and our wallets there will be some good algorithmic/software/hardware/engineering advances. Already today the computational costs have fallen dramatically compared to just 2 years ago, but demand is growing so fast that more advances need to be made.
I wonder how much the local seawater temperature rises…
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Visions of monster squid eating the data center
Didn’t microsoft trial this a while ago?
Found it: Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably - Source