☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up180arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ie☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square32linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·4 months ago perhaps some of the users in this thread would be interested in my startup that will build submersible data centers deep under the sea the ocean has effectively infinite heat capacity and the immense hydrostatic pressures greatly increase data compression ratios
minus-squareBlep [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months agoYou jest but seawater for cooling will probably end up one of the better ways to go about it. On a coast somewhere
minus-squareLeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·4 months agoThe problem is it’s incredibly corrosive.
minus-squareLe_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agothere are schemes for using an interchange between seawater and a closed-loop of something more manageable but the seawater side still has to deal with all that so it’s only a little easier
minus-squarestupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoThe same 80 year old technology used in motors on seagoing vessels will be used.
minus-squareBlep [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoYeah i didn’t consider that. The undersea one actually looks better than i anticipated
minus-squaretidalwave [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-224 days agodeleted by creator
minus-squaresegfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 months agoa man chooses, an AI obeys
minus-squareTychoxii [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoChina did it https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-powered-undersea-data-center/
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoyeah but at what cost? $226 million anyway i don’t think that’s as deep as i was envisioning
the ocean has effectively infinite heat capacity and the immense hydrostatic pressures greatly increase data compression ratios
You jest but seawater for cooling will probably end up one of the better ways to go about it. On a coast somewhere
The problem is it’s incredibly corrosive.
there are schemes for using an interchange between seawater and a closed-loop of something more manageable but the seawater side still has to deal with all that so it’s only a little easier
The same 80 year old technology used in motors on seagoing vessels will be used.
Yeah i didn’t consider that. The undersea one actually looks better than i anticipated
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a man chooses, an AI obeys
China did it
https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-powered-undersea-data-center/
yeah but at what cost?
anyway i don’t think that’s as deep as i was envisioning