I do not know about you, but sometimes when I hear about what great AI data centers are, and about revenues that it generates for companies such as AMD, my first reaction remains: “Oh, go to the sea!” It turns out that this is not a terrible suggestion.
At the beginning of this week, a “data capsule” containing over 400 bulky servers was installed on the coast of Hainan Island in China on the sea floor Global Times). These immersed servers were then connected to the already underwater data center with a coastal station to better support the rapidly developing AI infrastructure in the country.
China Media Group claims that this computing center will be able to support AI assistants with Deepseek power supply through 7,000 conversations per second. The state media company also claims that the computing power of the entire center is comparable with 30,000 high-class game computers that enjoy the best liquid cooling that the Earth has to offer.
The structure immersed in the server by 18 by 3.6 meters is far from the first of its kind, and the data center by 130,000 tons is also approaching Hainan in 2023. Outside China, Microsoft is only one company that played with the idea of the Centra idea data under the sea from at least 2014.
When Microsoft finished the tests near the Islands of Orkney in Scotland in 2020, the company observed that the failure indicator of submerged data centers was one -eighth of what he saw differently in more traditionally land centers. I mean that at this time the company would work with a much smaller sample size (and more compact test centers to run), but ultimately gigantic financial wins represented by natural cooling turned out to be too good NO To scale – though Microsoft himself I did not choose.
Data centers are extremely hungry for power, wherever you hold them, and all this power results in hardware temperature, which will really make you sweat. The submerged computing center in Hainan, relying on sea water, is presented as an energy -saving option, while its resting place somewhere in the South China Sea is settled as a safety victory (although only because it is at the bottom of the sea, it does not mean that it is necessarily secure).
Despite this, technology-technology oceans, if you want a fascinating image. I am simply less excited that we do it for a not very lively and
