"95 percent of the data center's energy comes from offshore wind, while the facility itself is cooled by the cold ocean current."
"All in all, it took $226 million to put together, and is estimated to cut total power consumption by around 23 percent, compared to traditional land-based data centers."
""While we don't currently have data centers in the water, we will continue to use Project Natick as a research platform to explore, test, and validate new concepts around data center reliability and sustainability, for example with liquid immersion," a spokesperson told industry publication Data Center Dynamics."
HiCloud launched the first phase of a 24 megawatt offshore underwater data center off the coast of Shanghai. Ninety-five percent of the facility's energy is supplied by offshore wind, and cold ocean currents provide cooling. The project cost about $226 million and is estimated to reduce total power consumption by roughly 23 percent compared with traditional land-based data centers. HiCloud also completed a commercial undersea data center near Hainan composed of chained cabin pods, each hosting 400 to 500 servers and linked to the mainland by an undersea telecom cable. China plans to expand that network under the Eastern Data, Western Computing strategy. Microsoft previously ran Project Natick as a pilot but currently does not operate submerged data centers.
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