Microsoft's Datacenter Under the Sea

[Cow Poke]

Under the sea, Microsoft tests a datacenter


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Apparently, this will be a SEALED datacenter - no technicians - for 5 years, cooled by the sea, and powered by all renewable energy - containing over 800 servers.

The data center includes 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage

[QuantaFille]

So, what happens if there's a hardware failure? One stick of RAM goes bad, and they have to drag the whole thing up to replace it?

[Cow Poke]

So, what happens if there's a hardware failure? One stick of RAM goes bad, and they have to drag the whole thing up to replace it?

There have been tremendous advances in failover technology - redundancy upon redundancy, and eliminating single points of failure. Heat is the biggest enemy of servers, and the purpose of putting the whole thing under water is managing the heat.

[rogue06]

There have been tremendous advances in failover technology - redundancy upon redundancy, and eliminating single points of failure. Heat is the biggest enemy of servers, and the purpose of putting the whole thing under water is managing the heat.

I thought the best place to put a server was in an old bathroom closet.

[Cow Poke]

I thought the best place to put a server was in an old bathroom closet.

[Cerebrum123]

[Cow Poke]

I was thinking SpongeBob and Patrick.

[Sparko]

Wait. They are heating up the ocean? Why are they considering this "green" instead of "global warming?"

They will be melting the ice caps!