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Using the Sea To Cool Your Data Center
1sockchuck writes "We haven't yet seen signs of the Google Navy of seagoing data centers that use the ocean for power and cooling. But data center developers are planning to use sea water air conditioning in a new project on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Cold water from deep-sea currents would be piped ashore to be used in a heat exchanger for the data center facility. A similar system has been used to replace the chillers at Cornell University, which draws cold water from Lake Cayuga. The Cornell system cost $50 million, but has slashed cooling-related energy usage by 86 percent."
It would then be under the jurisdiction of pirates of the real kind.
I can't image Saltwater not eating the hell out of all the piping.
Yeah, thats the real problem. I hope we discover such metal soon so we can get boats and ships in the oceans too.
I'm not too sure about the anthropogenic global warming, but I'm starting to come around to it. Earlier my contention was that global warming scientists are causing global warming, but I'm beginning to think that maybe -- just maybe -- computers in general might be the cause. I mean, if computers are having to pump cold water from the ocean depths to cool computers, that's gotta be dumping a lot of heat back into the ocean, right? Right...?
Salt water is nasty, evil shit.
You should've seen it when it was filled with primordial soup a thousand million years ago, and then came the primitive lifeforms, eeew!
Can't you just heat it up to sterilize it?
heating up the atmosphere by 1200 degree Celsius would take the same amount of energy as heating up the oceans by 1 degree Celsius.
Wow. Let's do that!
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Anything over 1200 grit should work pretty well. You end up with a shiny rod too!