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[Author of the day] Dexter
Chairman of the Reading Giant Slow Council
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Two years ago, Microsoft's research project Natick threw a data center full of servers in the sea around Orkney Island in Scotland to explore the benefits and feasibility of placing the data center on the seabed. At that time, the IT circle also made related reports: I heard that your company's data center has fallen into the sea?
Unlike the data center that usually looks like a factory, Microsoft's "data center" sunk into the sea is actually a sealed cabin full of servers. After two years of operation on the seabed, this white submarine with 855 servers was recently salvaged.
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So, is this "undersea data center" really more reliable than on land?
The answer is not only yes-in fact, the reliability of this subsea data center has reached 8 times that of traditional data centers!
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Researchers said that in the past two years, the server failure rate in subsea data centers was only 1/8 compared to that of data centers on land.
Moreover, through the natural cooling of seawater, the indicators of low power consumption and low emissions are also achieved.
As for why the submarine data center is more reliable, in addition to reducing the aging because the sealed cabin is filled with nitrogen and no oxygen in the normal air, the absence of human "smart misoperation" is also one of the main reasons.
But obviously,
Compared with data centers on land,
The biggest disadvantage of subsea data centers is
When the server fails, it can only be suspended.
After all, you can't send divers to fix it.
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The complete success of this experiment provides new ideas for future data center construction.
After all, one of the biggest consumption of data centers is to cool down the computers, and in order to reduce energy consumption, Google and Facebook have opened data centers in the Arctic Circle.
Perhaps one day, we will see a submarine data center where humans can reside, like the submarine city in science fiction.
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