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[–] 1 point 10 hours ago* (1 child)

The point of placing a container data center cooled with sea water at the shore is that, they are still readily available for maintenance. In the deep ocean, maintenance becomes a headache. Either someone lives there and does the maintenance. Or you fly people there regularly to do the maintenance. Like how they do it with ocean platform oil rigs. Cooling with seawater requires more maintenance, descaling, valve replacements, animal growth removal, divers, helicopters, camera drones, etc. Oil rigs can justify the cost with the extremely high profit margins that oil generates. I don't think data centers can justify such a expense. Specially now the bubble is starting to deflate and trillions of dollars have already been drained.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Well, you can reduce maintenance issues with the cooling system by using radiators and minimizing the amount of parts and eliminating the amount of moving parts altogether that have to be in direct contact with seawater. As I said above, I think the only benefit doing this has over the many others ways we can design data centers is data sovereignty, which isn't a good reason imo. My whole point in this thread was that there was no new technology or major development to make this happen.

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