Microsoft put the datacenter underwater, increasing sustainability by using water cool servers.
The concept of an underwater data center split from Microsoft during Think Week in 2014, an event where employees gather to exchange non-standard ideas. The concept was seen as a possible way to provide lightning-fast cloud services to coastal communities and save energy.
More than half of the world's population lives within 120 miles of the coast. Placing data centers underwater near coastal cities will move data a short distance, speeding up web surfing, video streaming, and gaming.
The continuously calm underwater sea also allows for the creation of energy-efficient data centers. For example, they may use the waterline of the heat exchanger, which is found on submarines.
- So the question is why does the data center need water and if it is, how much water does the datacenter need?
- When people use the Internet, they rely on data centers to store, manage and transmit information. These centers require enormous amounts of energy and water to operate effectively.
- All big data servers use water directly or indirectly: they directly take water to cool the servers that heat up during the execution of a program, and they use water indirectly because they power their servers and cooling systems are powered by electricity generated in power plants that use water for their own cooling.
- Back in 2009 Amazon has estimated that a 15-megawatt data center may require 360,000 gallons of water per day, making one of the company’s data center designers forced to accept “water consumption (data in the centers) is very unpleasant.
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