Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

  • mawkishdave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The amount of heat we would put in the ocean from this would be like pouring a cup of hot water into one of the great lakes. This isn’t a issue and would be better for the environment as we are not using all these power hungry ways to cool them.

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      True, this is putting less heat into the atmosphere than running air conditioners to move the heat outside before radiating it away.