Good that this didn't become a trend. Oceans warming is one of the huge threats of climate change, we really don't need to help it.
2four2 · 18m ago
A data center is a near-zero contribution to ocean warming.
Mars008 · 16m ago
Add to that it was done in the North where ocean's cooling is needed for Golf stream to keep circulating.
bawana · 46m ago
I wonder if they can use the same cooling tower for their nuclear plant and their data center? Colocating fission reactors and datacenters might be a way to get some use out of all those empty malls resulting from amazonification.
duxup · 3h ago
Couldn't you get the cooling of the ocean from just pumping water through pipes in the ocean and then onto land? And if nitrogen was a big benefit, couldn't you do that on land too?
Not knocking the experiment, it seems very interesting / worth seeing what happens.
more_corn · 2h ago
Yeah Google built a data center in an old paper mill in Norway. They use ocean water to cool the heat exchangers. It’s important not to let the salt water in. Things get a lot more difficult then.
duxup · 1h ago
I suspect it is similar underwater ;)
Bluestein · 3h ago
I am sure this has got to have been tried before ...
(Then again, pumping the water would consume some energy ...)
dublin · 36m ago
Hacker News is getting really useless. I thought I'd heard this some time ago, and yep, clicking through,this is indeed "news" that is OVER A YEAR OLD.
Are we just completely ignoring the "News" part of Hacker News now?
Not knocking the experiment, it seems very interesting / worth seeing what happens.
(Then again, pumping the water would consume some energy ...)
Are we just completely ignoring the "News" part of Hacker News now?