« SpaceX Starship SN10 Hard Landing Possibly Due to Helium Ingestion | Main | Descending Perseverance Rover Images its Heat Shield Impacting Mars »
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Microsoft Experimenting with Sea-Floor Data Centres
Microsoft has demonstrated that sealing up servers in nitrogen-filled pods and lowering them onto the seabed is a good idea.
— ToughSF (@ToughSf) March 9, 2021
Free cooling, free real estate and 8x lower failure rate than conventional human-accessible servers after two years underwater.https://t.co/BuhZPoyAxB pic.twitter.com/c7ASMdHmb8
Disadvantage: technicians can't go there and fix things. Advantage: technicians can't break working gear trying to fix things.
Posted at March 10, 2021 15:17