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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

submitted 1 year ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology

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Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

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[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would this be a bad thing? Doubt it happens at any scale but this seems like a perfectly viable way to cool data centers compared to how energy intensive they are today.

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I imagine people are concerned about disposal and failures. They are unmaintainable ewaste containers

[–] AdminWorker@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

But without oxygen and with fewer vibrations from cooling, they last 5years longer with no maintenance.

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