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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line?
(news.microsoft.com)
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Sadly, it sounds like power is coming from the shore.
But I think this is their plan for energy in the future.
It's still pretty darn clean.
It's not clean at all. You're burying disposable hardware into extremely corrosive salt water and then throwing away the whole thing when it fails. What the fuck is green about that?
All hardware is "disposable" in the sense that it becomes obsolete after a few years, and the electricity to keep using it costs more than replacing it with new hardware with better performance per watt.
Maybe once Moore's law is finally dead and buried that'll stop being the case, but it hasn't happened quite yet.
This certainly isn't "green" in terms of disposal, but I'm not sure it's any worse than the status quo alternative of a landfill, either.
But we recycle e-waste. You're not recycling shit that's been corroded by the ocean. It's ruined, not just obsolete. We already have fully-renewable data-centers. This just makes more problems than it solves which is why there's been no update to this article from 2018.
Oh you sweet, summer child.
The thought of these plus tidal generators makes my day.
Yeah, the Orkney Islands are also experimenting with tidal generators (Wikipedia/European Marine Energy Centre), though the weather there is ideal for wind energy.
I can't wait to reserve some compute time for when the ocean data center is getting wind power.