Is the Data Center that Fell into the Sea Picked up?

Unlike data centers that usually look like factories, Microsoft’sunderwaterdata center is actually a sealed cabin full of servers. After operating on the seabed for two years, this white submarine with 855 servers was recently salvaged.

So, is this “underwater data center” really more reliable than those on land?

The answer is absolutely yes. In fact, this subsea data center is 8 timesas reliable as the traditional data center!

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 have also been achieved.

As for the reason why the underwater data center is more reliable, in addition to reducing the aging because the sealed cabin is filled with nitrogen and no oxygen in the 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 centers is that they can only be suspended when the server fails. After all, you can’t send divers to fix it.

The complete success of this experiment provides new ideas for future data center construction.

After all, one of the biggest consumptions of data centers is cooling down computers. In order to reduce energy consumption, Google and Facebook opened data centers in the Arctic Circle.

Perhaps one day, we will see a submarine data center where humans can reside, just like the submarine city in science fiction. Theconquest is the sea of stars.