Underwater data centre in the Pacific could be running by end of year

A start-up has developed information centre pods that may be submerged within the ocean to let the water naturally preserve them cool. Cooling is often very energy-intensive

By Jeremy Hsu

An underwater information centre may begin working off the west coast of the US earlier than the top of 2022. The undertaking is an try to indicate the viability of utilizing the ocean to supply cooling, which usually accounts for a big portion of information centre vitality use.

“By putting the info centres subsea, we get rid of the electrically pushed cooling which is 40 per cent of the ability consumption,” says Maxie Reynolds, co-founder of Subsea Cloud, the corporate behind the initiative. …