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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Underwater datacenters make cooling very effective and maintenance nearly impossible, so you have to treat the container data centers essentially disposable. That's only viable with economy of scale big enough to be an xkcd comic punchline. I guess Microsoft found that even they are not quite there yet. Also most computers don't tolerate seawater quite as well as they tolerate air.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    @bitofhope Pretty sure space datacenters are also going to be even more disposable.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Oh yea absolutely. Underwater datacenters have one upside (cooling) and massive downsides (everything else, more or less). Space datacenters trade that upside into yet another downside, make the downsides even bigger and add a few extra downsides for good measure.

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