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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

Underwater datacenters make cooling very effective and maintenance nearly impossible, so you have to treat the container data centers essentially disposable. That's only viable with economy of scale big enough to be an xkcd comic punchline. I guess Microsoft found that even they are not quite there yet. Also most computers don't tolerate seawater quite as well as they tolerate air.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 5 days ago

@bitofhope

Pretty sure space datacenters are also going to be even more disposable.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

imagine a $100b GPU data centre with the disposability of a cubesat

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