[HN Gopher] Microsoft Confirms the Closure of Its Underwater Dat...
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       Microsoft Confirms the Closure of Its Underwater Data Center
        
       Author : Bluestein
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-07-18 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | duxup wrote:
       | Couldn't you get the cooling of the ocean from just pumping water
       | through pipes in the ocean and then onto land? And if nitrogen
       | was a big benefit, couldn't you do that on land too?
       | 
       | Not knocking the experiment, it seems very interesting / worth
       | seeing what happens.
        
         | Bluestein wrote:
         | I am sure this has got to have been tried before ...
         | 
         | (Then again, pumping the water would consume some energy ...)
        
         | more_corn wrote:
         | Yeah Google built a data center in an old paper mill in Norway.
         | They use ocean water to cool the heat exchangers. It's
         | important not to let the salt water in. Things get a lot more
         | difficult then.
        
           | duxup wrote:
           | I suspect it is similar underwater ;)
        
       | bawana wrote:
       | I wonder if they can use the same cooling tower for their nuclear
       | plant and their data center? Colocating fission reactors and
       | datacenters might be a way to get some use out of all those empty
       | malls resulting from amazonification.
        
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