Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Throw Your Computer In The Ocean.”.
There are data centers at the bottom of the ocean, I’m not crazy, there’s not very many of them. This is still very much experimental, but it’s an idea that could revolutionize waste heat management, which is something I think about a lot in 2015, Microsoft, sunk, its first prototype underwater data center off the coast of California and left it there for 2 months in 2018. They did it again: they sunk an airtight metal storage tank with 864 servers and 27.6 pedabytes of storage near the Scottish orne islands, 117 ft below the surface. They declared that experiment a success after 2 years, noting that the sealed server tank had an eighth of the failure rate of a conventional data center. Now, as promising as these results are, there are some obvious drawbacks to sinking a server in a large natural body of water.
Using a data Center’s waste heat to warm a local swimming pool is relatively easy in comparison because, because we’re dealing with a controlled artificial environment but humans, aside from Jason Mamoa, cannot control the ocean see the problem with the ocean is that it is incredibly deep and Incredibly salty, like a goth girl with tret cards, ocean water has a typical salinity of 3.5 % compared to freshwater, which has a salinity of 0.5 % or less. What this means is that saltwater is essentially an electrolyte solution which increases conductivity and chemically accelerates corrosion. That’S not an insurmountable barrier, though, because Humanity has a lot of experience: protecting the submerged parts of metal watercraft through anti-corrosion Coatings like specialized paint, active galvanic protection and colar enamel. Of course, we could also use freshwater sources like relatively deep Lakes, but the ocean being massive.
Would allow us to implement sunken servers on a much larger scale. You’D still need data centers to serve population centers further in land, but around 40 % of the global population lives within 100 miles of the coast, which is nothing to sneeze at now. Another problem is that water is actually pretty heavy with every additional 100 ft below sea level. We’Re piling on an extra three atmospheres of pressure, but we’re never going to put these data centers anywhere other than the relatively shallow continental shelf, because we’d want them to be relatively close by. Fortunately, a typical cylindrical storage container with thick metal walls can easily withstand the pressure of a few hundred ft of seawater. These data centers also have to be reliably anchored in place to stop them from shifting you wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking, but there are strong currents deep underneath the surface, not to mention that hurricanes can churn up water from hundreds of feet deep and Sometimes, wind up disturbing sunken wrecks on the seafloor, the 2018 Microsoft Data Center used a triangular base loaded with heavy ballist. It also wound up coated in a layer of algae and colonized by C anemones. After only 2 years, underwater animal interference isn’t too much of an issue for a thick metal container, but any cable leading to or from the container should ideally be wrapped in Kevlar and buried below the seabed to protect it from shark attacks. Oh, that’s, not a joke! For unclear reasons possibly related to sharks, Electro receptive senses, they occasionally Chomp on undersea cables, but these are all solvable problems with current technology and the idea has enormous potential benefits. We’Ll tell you more after we thank HRS for sponsoring this. Video improving your website’s SEO can be a daunting task, but it is vital to increasing visibility and to drive more traffic to your site. Hre’S free Web Master tools, help you monitor your SEO.
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The bottom of the ocean, however, has an extremely consistent cold temperature, that’s because deep bodies of water typically stratify by density, which means that they also stratify by temperature. So, even though the surface of the water gets heated by the Sun and stirred by the wind that water rarely interacts with the layers of Colder denser water, deep below when the server is surrounded by consistent low temperature, water, less additional energy is expended on the cooling Process which is a cost and efficiency win, but also a marginal environmental win. Likewise, large data centers in major urban areas can cost a fair amount in rent because they compete for space with offices, Industries and airbnbs data. Centers are one of the few business assets that could be relocated to the bottom of the ocean, where they wouldn’t really compete with fish so much as get gradually colonized by them. If we were then able to leave these servers in place and not touch them for around a decade, the disruption to the benic biome would be minimal. These underwater data servers also take advantage of an idea that has been used on land sealing the servers in an airtight oxygen-free environment that is instead filled with a dry neutral gas like nitrogen. Nitrogen is less corrosive than oxygen and nonflammable, increasing server longevity and preventing fires. In these conditions, the lack of on-site maintenance has a hidden advantage. Human machine interactions always have the possibility of bumps jostling and other forms of human error that increase the risk of accidental damage. A much much lower failure rate means that, with sufficient redundancy, the server can be left in place with drives replaced only during scheduled turnover.
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