China begins building underwater data center with performance equal to 6 million PCs — aims to save 122 million KWh of electricity and nearly ten soccer fields of land | Data centers find refuge at…::China Central Television reports that China has added another data module to the country’s commercial underwater data center (UDC) off Hainan Island.
Great. Now we’re just apparently directly warming the oceans instead of indirectly.
It will take more streaming porn to boil the ocean than even you could watch.
From one Datacenter? Yes. If you put all datacenters into the sea? Definitely not. And if the Bitcoin scumbags decide that this is a good idea and built huge mining farms underwarer it’s even worse. Datacenters are one of the biggest contributors to energy need already, taking up 1-1.3% of global energy demand. That’s no joke
equal to 6 million PCs
That has literally no value. My Pi is probably equal to 6 million PCs - if you count C64s as PCs.
