Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success

Underwater pods can reduce latency by moving cloud services closer to customers.

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It's worth pointing out that the Orkney Islands have two 33kV sub sea power connections to the mainland with the capacity of 40 MW. So the Orkney Islands is connected to the UK's power grid and ultimately to continental Europe. There is also a failsafe diesel generator.

So this would mean that 100% of their electricity isn't generated on the island, but that they generate as much as they use.

Might be seen as quibbling, but it is *the* main point of contention around going 100% renewable.

 

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With enough data centres like these, all the excess heat will go straight into the sea, further contributing to climate change. The only place these data centres wouldn’t contribute further to climate change is if they were buried deep down in earth’s crust but then cooling would be an issue.

I think I prefer the idea of city center data centres where the excess heat is put to use for central heating systems

Thermodynamics fail.

Global warming is not caused by humans creating heat. There is nothing humans could do that would produce even the tiniest fraction of the thermal energy that reaches the Earth from the sun.

Global warming is caused by GHG which increase the percentage of the thermal energy from the sun which is trapped. The sun is so off the charts powerful compared to any heat sources produced by humans that even the tiniest increase in the greenhouse effect can raise global temperatures.

To wit: the Sun bombards the Earth with more energy in *ONE HOUR* than the entire human race uses in a year. One. Hour.

And there are fools who still thing solar power isn't viable....

Rain is a viable source of water too, but you don't get to chose when you get it

 

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With enough data centres like these, all the excess heat will go straight into the sea, further contributing to climate change. The only place these data centres wouldn’t contribute further to climate change is if they were buried deep down in earth’s crust but then cooling would be an issue.

I think I prefer the idea of city center data centres where the excess heat is put to use for central heating systems

Thermodynamics fail.

Global warming is not caused by humans creating heat. There is nothing humans could do that would produce even the tiniest fraction of the thermal energy that reaches the Earth from the sun.

Global warming is caused by GHG which increase the percentage of the thermal energy from the sun which is trapped. The sun is so off the charts powerful compared to any heat sources produced by humans that even the tiniest increase in the greenhouse effect can raise global temperatures.

To wit: the Sun bombards the Earth with more energy in *ONE HOUR* than the entire human race uses in a year. One. Hour.

And there are fools who still thing solar power isn't viable....

Rain is a viable source of water too, but you don't get to chose when you get it

Which is why we store rainwater in reservoirs to use during dry seasons.

Whoosh??