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Why Microsoft left dozens of servers on the ocean floor for two years
Microsoft wrapped up Phase 2 of Project Natick, its plan to test the viability of underwater data centers. We spoke with its project leads about what they found.
Microsoft wrapped up Phase 2 of Project Natick, its plan to test the viability of underwater data centers. We spoke with its project leads about what they found.
Bondan D Prasetyo
December 22, 2020 at 3:59 pm
😬
Aqil Asyraf
December 22, 2020 at 4:03 pm
They really went from storing data in the cloud to storing data in the water
JunkionMarnot2005
December 22, 2020 at 4:07 pm
I mean…..aren’t internet cables down there?
JunkionMarnot2005
December 22, 2020 at 4:08 pm
I can see it now: Challenger Deep! Now with 6G & WiFi 8!
Dubbin Nutt
December 22, 2020 at 4:19 pm
So they are going to make the oceans even hotter now. The oceans are already heating up and encountering environmental problems. Can’t think of a worse idea.
Asashi Gaming
December 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm
It was stated in the video that it doesnt affect the water temperature and sealife used it to their advantage
Asashi Gaming
December 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm
Watch the video first karen
Pat
December 22, 2020 at 4:22 pm
Is this a way of protecting the servers from EMPs? (electromagnetic pulse)
I have a feeling that is actually what they’re looking at.
Science Compliance
December 22, 2020 at 4:23 pm
I think those servers are cool. Ha! Get it?
Serge at Virally
December 22, 2020 at 4:30 pm
ok Microsoft stop heating our oceans!
Daniel Zaidan
December 22, 2020 at 4:48 pm
throughout the video i could only think of the thermal pollution that this system may cause
Asashi Gaming
December 22, 2020 at 5:30 pm
It was stated in the video that it didnt affect the ocean temperature lol
ErilynOfAnachronos
December 22, 2020 at 6:37 pm
Imagine 1 million of these datacenters, each consuming 1 million Watt. It would take them ~177 years to heat all seawater on earth 0.001 Kelvin.
Assuming equal distribution of the generated heat.
soiceyboy33
December 22, 2020 at 4:55 pm
Why not put them on top of mountain peaks for easier access? You’d have to pull up the entire data center to service it, where as on a mountain, you can service it without bringing the whole thing down.
Asashi Gaming
December 22, 2020 at 5:36 pm
Imagine if it rains, a landslide, or a earthquake. Putting it on the ocean is way safer and more colder
Kailen Bittner
December 22, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Underwater data centers for water cooled data centers duh.
Robert Tinsley
December 22, 2020 at 5:43 pm
Yes great
VOLT GAMING
December 22, 2020 at 5:53 pm
There is no funny comments yet.
Gerardo Gomez
December 22, 2020 at 5:55 pm
I support. 👉🏽
Meathook's Chronicles
December 22, 2020 at 6:26 pm
Jus do it, do it…do it!😆 I luv all the planning and thought that is going into this.
Rob Dark
December 22, 2020 at 7:17 pm
117ft 😁 love the Masterchief reference they do with everything 😜
Patrick T
December 22, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Artificially white teeth look silly and are distracting. People need to be less vain.
bunnylovah
December 22, 2020 at 8:29 pm
Will That Heat Up Our Oceans. So Much Of The theory of Global Warming. lol
Fulton Barrons
December 22, 2020 at 8:57 pm
I wonder how safe it is from Hacking, or from blowing it up?
Michael Griffiths
December 22, 2020 at 9:01 pm
This is a great initiative. Good use of natural resources.
The process needs lots more tests so as to mature in into a viable solution.
When it’s matured, Apple will ‘invent’ it and call it ‘Apple Water’
Eduardo Espericueta
December 22, 2020 at 9:24 pm
“There wasn’t a significant change.” Yea right. How big of an impact will thousands of these have on oceans that are already warming?
rudeboys28712
December 22, 2020 at 10:37 pm
getting ready for the noah flood againg
ariff zkfly
December 22, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Here comes the worsen of global warming
Conrad Genio
December 23, 2020 at 12:41 am
Space is cold too
Andre P
December 23, 2020 at 12:56 am
Or just use Apple M1 chips… or other thermal efficient designs…
phantimlord69
December 23, 2020 at 2:37 am
Your top shelf is upside down.
phunnyfill
December 23, 2020 at 4:41 am
Nobody: “That all sounds great, but what about the environmental impact?!!!”
Alan
December 23, 2020 at 3:29 pm
That was my first question @ 1:27 actually.
esbi1972
December 23, 2020 at 5:11 am
Would like to see if it works near the equator.
Eyjafjallajokull
December 23, 2020 at 7:47 am
Russian torpedo :🚀😱
Ram Annepu
December 23, 2020 at 10:07 am
they could just use m1 processors
Zachary Wheat
December 23, 2020 at 3:27 pm
I think that if this process could become scalable, it would provide many technical benefits, as well as solving the problem of taking up room on land for data centers.
mike bronson
December 23, 2020 at 3:42 pm
This is how we can show the world that the United States can make peace far better then we can make war. One apple pie at a time. My Christmas wish? Peace on earth, good will towards all.
Sam P
December 23, 2020 at 4:48 pm
What’s this stupid idea to worm up the ocean water 🌊 💧 🤔 don’t we have enuff problems in the world let’s create more isseus.
ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴍʀ. ɪꜱᴀɪᴀʜ ᴅᴇʀɪɴɢᴇʀ;
December 23, 2020 at 8:04 pm
Seagate be like _wait a minute… how did you came up with this idea exactly?_
Orin Levy
December 23, 2020 at 9:10 pm
This really feels like a ‘no-brainer’ type of idea. We’ve had active cables traversing oceans for decades now so. we know that works. It’s obvious that cold moving water dissipates heat which radically reduces the operational costs of airconditioning and commercial space. The remaining question was the operability of the servers and, as was pointed out in the video, Moore’s law. I don’t think Moore’s Law is completely dead. The pace of innovation is still incredibly fast. The question regarding undersea data centers is if the technology that is placed in the ocean will still be able to handle the type of traffic created just a few short years later.
Cynthia Cantrell
December 23, 2020 at 11:27 pm
Linux and Chill.
Kenneth June Benedicto
December 24, 2020 at 12:03 am
If you use ocean water for cooling, aren’t you contributing to the warm ocean temperature – contributing to the green house effect?
charles potts
December 24, 2020 at 12:56 am
Oh Man REALLY? I can Environmental Activists crying “bloody murder” now Big Tech is polluting the water with data centers! Nothing is off limits these days! I guess it’s Okay to put one in the Bermuda Triangle? LOL! Great video, love to see companies innovating!
Alberto Portugal
December 24, 2020 at 1:00 am
That seal is a good boye
Lance
December 24, 2020 at 1:42 am
direct contribution to global warming by heating the oceans? lol
Neojhun
December 27, 2020 at 5:55 pm
Literally but also Negligible. The amount of heat a Data Centre like that creates vs the volume of flowing sea water it is in. Is not enough to have a noticeable impact. That much water especially flowing can take away a crazy amount of heat.
Austin Thomas
December 24, 2020 at 1:44 am
Couldn’t you essentially do the same thing with an underground warehouse filled with vacuumed sealed tubes with the nitrogen to house the servers? I don’t see why under water makes a difference. Maybe Microsoft has different intentions for being in the ocean?..
Zyrel Lee
December 24, 2020 at 5:23 am
azure
Sydnay BENDER
December 24, 2020 at 12:55 pm
Fascinating really
G W
December 24, 2020 at 1:48 pm
What will 1000 in one area do to the fishes and other sea life ? You are heating up the water around them
Chris Ramirez
December 24, 2020 at 4:34 pm
His teeth are brighter than my future.
Tejas N
December 24, 2020 at 6:37 pm
moving the cloud under water 🤣
Orville Mendonca
December 24, 2020 at 7:59 pm
What if aquaman steals all the data
S124434
December 24, 2020 at 10:41 pm
Could they possibly build a data centre under water, but possibly build it in a way that technicians could possibly easily access it, so if maintenance is possibly required they can just send someone down there to fix it, possibly. I feel.
Jd Dm
December 25, 2020 at 3:00 am
Comments are so lame when they aren’t full of hate after 2020.
Mark Chrome
December 25, 2020 at 3:39 pm
Next up underwater volcano powered factories
EyesOfByes
December 26, 2020 at 3:34 am
This is the future
Elijah Hayes
December 26, 2020 at 2:45 pm
What If someone takes it out and steals it before microsoft can get to it?
Patrick Smart
December 26, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Can’t stand this voice
MasterChief4817
December 26, 2020 at 7:43 pm
This is a horrible idea.
chip renner
December 26, 2020 at 9:37 pm
lets make the oceans warmer…jeeeeeeez!
Ritchie Besas
December 26, 2020 at 9:43 pm
im getting neck cramps watching this
Thomas Hillard
December 27, 2020 at 12:29 am
Wouldn’t that just warm up the ocean overtime 1:37
John J
December 27, 2020 at 6:10 am
It would have less of an effect than on land where it would require more energy to cool it, and release less greenhouse gasses, which is the entire idea behind this project. So technically moving servers to water would help slow climate change and global warming
Lunafreya Fleuret
December 27, 2020 at 5:02 am
now they want all living things to be attached to a screen , even fish
Tsyahill T
December 27, 2020 at 7:33 am
This could be the next hacking scene in mission impossible movies.
Oh Yicong
December 27, 2020 at 8:44 am
The start of an underwater city – Aquaman
Mikhael Rachmaninov
December 27, 2020 at 12:43 pm
They try to boil the sea water 😱
Diomer Ortiz
December 27, 2020 at 3:04 pm
Love how these bots at CNET just accept a massive corporation saying “don’t worry, we monitored the water temp and you can trust us not to warm the water”
Diomer Ortiz
December 27, 2020 at 6:01 pm
@Neojhun This is one company doing this. “Science” doesn’t account for hundreds of thousands of these…
Neojhun
December 27, 2020 at 6:28 pm
@Diomer Ortiz FAIL, as long M$ does not make it much more dense. Such Low Density vs Volume of Sea Water will have negligible effect regardless the Number of Units. You fail at basic logic.
Diomer Ortiz
December 27, 2020 at 6:39 pm
@Neojhun you fail at having a decent conversation without insulting someone.
Neojhun
December 27, 2020 at 7:03 pm
@Diomer Ortiz I gave you numbers and technical explanations. You still ignored them. FAIL is just accurate description of your behavior.
Diomer Ortiz
December 27, 2020 at 7:18 pm
@Neojhun keep it going scientist
hkr joy
December 27, 2020 at 6:41 pm
Yeah!! More destruction of sea coast and coral reefs….
akhil kadway
December 28, 2020 at 3:00 am
So next time there is a maintenance issue with the servers, we need to call the Navy Seals.
Jake Collins
December 28, 2020 at 8:21 am
I feel like no one has asking the real question here.. how do they connect it to power underwater? 😂
Daniel Mcshane
December 28, 2020 at 12:26 pm
Ummmm with a power cable? We already have massive underwater cabling under the Pacific Ocean – this really isn’t that new
Daniel Mcshane
December 28, 2020 at 12:27 pm
Epic, but sounds expensive
Nicholas C Maingot
December 28, 2020 at 3:27 pm
Wow, those teeth are distracting
-Wickie -
December 28, 2020 at 6:35 pm
Can we put twitter in the sewer ?
My bad, its already there.
mwmentor
December 29, 2020 at 1:30 am
Interesting idea, but I don’t think that it will take off. The reason that I think that is because the risk of damage from fishing, or other human activity or natural phenomena is quite high… which could become expensive to fix.
Dun
December 29, 2020 at 2:52 am
Man, just intergrades this to an offshore wind turbine.
Yogi
December 29, 2020 at 7:24 am
As technology advances and moving over the limitation of silicon base computation, we should be using less bulk hardware….
OTAK OH
December 29, 2020 at 12:08 pm
Well clouds come from water 🤷🏻♀️
dheo fugado
December 29, 2020 at 12:37 pm
The heat will surely affect those ice bergs of the poles. Dafuck
Adriel Sjahfiedin
December 29, 2020 at 3:32 pm
Directly heating up the ocean XD
Gopinath Nath
December 29, 2020 at 8:41 pm
Apple arm processor will changes the data centers
J Shepin
December 29, 2020 at 9:47 pm
or you just build a datacenter next to the ocean and pump the cold water
Kueny Thiluang
December 29, 2020 at 11:56 pm
Seals are so photogenic 😂
gazza thomas
December 30, 2020 at 12:54 am
Faultless mouthful of teeth
gazza thomas
December 30, 2020 at 12:56 am
Facebook in a shitcan then
Ivan Lee
December 30, 2020 at 5:56 am
Those who have concern of environmental impact of servers warming up the sea, have no issue with the sun shining onto the planet with immense heat, fml.
husai ni
December 30, 2020 at 6:31 am
Because it’s cold
Tuhin Mondal
December 30, 2020 at 10:49 am
Microsoft is hiding their homework folder in there so no can physically get access to homework folder
Retroflection
December 30, 2020 at 1:15 pm
At first, I thought this was a very different and inefficient way of wiping data from old servers
Tonic Shondlani
December 30, 2020 at 2:06 pm
Well Apple M1 is proving you wrong about computer growth speed
Thea Blanca
December 30, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Yes, it’s a rather amazing little thing but at the same time you’re very limited. Like, you’re stuck with the ram that’s already on the board etc. And being ARM, apps have to be adapted. yes, there’s a bridge in it as well so it can run x86 code. But, it didn’t break moores law. It wasn’t such an “invention”.
RD Z
December 30, 2020 at 4:55 pm
Tube should be radiation free
mr pratster
December 30, 2020 at 6:23 pm
You know all components in that tube. Servers generate energy in the form of heat. In our data center, we generally use the 6000 watts per rack rule. That’s a lot of heat being dissipated into the ocean surroundings. While it’s a drop in the bucket, we are contributing to the ocean warming. I guess either way, we are expecting sea level rises, as long as there are needs to have data centers. Perhaps move away from Intel based chip to ARM based will really help.
Shiva Kumar
December 30, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Why Not Microsoft put their servers in antartica… its more cool then ocean
experiment
December 30, 2020 at 6:39 pm
Is toothpaste being advertised here?
Roberta Gallant
December 30, 2020 at 10:44 pm
Why did Microsoft leave dozens of servers on the ocean floor for two years? I am curious!
F.B.I.
December 30, 2020 at 11:14 pm
“Did you back up your data to the ocean?”
Bizybee
December 30, 2020 at 11:49 pm
100%
Matthew Lunnon
December 31, 2020 at 12:20 am
Also, useful protection from a CME.
Michael D
December 31, 2020 at 12:39 am
Under water bitcoin mining
illuminate1111
December 31, 2020 at 6:44 am
Hilary Clinton hid her emails in one of those servers
Mercy L N
December 31, 2020 at 7:20 am
Gosh! He calls them ‘they?’ Whose they?😶
Daniel Bellon
December 31, 2020 at 7:52 am
Space 🌌 is Cold two 💕👍💚
Brabus 76
December 31, 2020 at 8:22 am
The cobalt for megatron!!
Prabhav Shukla
December 31, 2020 at 8:44 am
Be back here in 20yrs, when we’ll have ocean floor warming and related biodiversity destruction.
WILFRED LOVE Hometheater
December 31, 2020 at 11:54 am
thats cool
Badru Din
December 31, 2020 at 2:49 pm
Why do people think 40m steel tubes are capable of heating up an ocean that covers 70% of the Earth’s surface 😂. Do a lil research about specific Heat.
Ron Pedersen
December 31, 2020 at 6:46 pm
Good point, show how most people have no idea of the scale of the planet but bring this up gives them eco virtue points they can brag about on social media.
Jack Currence
December 31, 2020 at 2:52 pm
I think it’s a great idea. Something else that might have contributed to the lower failure rate of the underwater servers is the lack (or seriously reduced amount) of dust. No matter how well a data center filters the air, every deployed server I’ve ever opened has had dust on the fan blades, heat sinks, etc…, which can only lower their efficiency.
Detective Unknown
December 31, 2020 at 2:54 pm
Imagine, all servers in the water, some diving and opening it an boom a fraction of the country can’t get into microsoft websites. I wonder what would happen of another country got ahold of it lol
Steve Harisson
December 31, 2020 at 3:15 pm
Now wonder my data a bit watery
deemon710
December 31, 2020 at 3:30 pm
It sounds like a good step to take. I’d just like some big brained people contemplate the effect of scaling up and warming our oceans in exchange for moving infrastructure off land.
pilotintraining18ify
December 31, 2020 at 4:20 pm
Morse Law still applies because we are at the end fringes of the predicted theoretical plateau. Once you get transistors closer to the atomic scale(which we are close to), you can’t make them any smaller. It is incorrect wording to say Moores’s law doesn’t apply! Since this reduction was calculated
Jan Bernardo
December 31, 2020 at 4:55 pm
It’s free real estate.
Spooky
December 31, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Me diving in the sea
also me wassup fish how you doing?
the fish: yo wassup Spooky i know you’re password
Lt. T
December 31, 2020 at 6:32 pm
Global warming alert: Microsoft has found a new way to destroy earth! Heating up the ocean!
Ron Pedersen
December 31, 2020 at 6:41 pm
They did not mention the political advantages. They can put a data center close to a nation but in international waters. This frees them from political turmoil, civil wars, taxes, and so on.
Goo World
December 31, 2020 at 7:16 pm
I guess you can’t call it “The Cloud” anymore … back your data up to “The Ocean” 💨
Michal Vrana
December 31, 2020 at 7:41 pm
yeah, I know its not much, but how about we dont heat our oceans any more?
Sahan Randika
December 31, 2020 at 8:01 pm
Next skill set required to become a network engineer: Diving 🙂
Andrew Frey
December 31, 2020 at 8:35 pm
With all that extra heat being directly dumped into the ocean, we’ll be able to start blaming Microsoft for increased hurricanes.
Robert Lee
December 31, 2020 at 8:42 pm
CNET could ya do a full informative video on CableLabs 10G wired Internet Speeds of 10 Gigabits Upstream and 6 Gigabits Downstream. Is it true? If so when will it roll out and what ISPs will provide it and will the small ISPs die out due to the high costs of upgrading their infrastructure. So will the major ISPs will RAISE their FEES? Will we have to upgrade our Modems, Routers, and CAT6/CAT6E/CAT7?
infa008
December 31, 2020 at 8:52 pm
Sounds like an excellent plan. No fighting or paying for land rights. Thermal management and atmospheric controls. Create a plug and play form factor and they can easily be replaced and updated.
Harira Normal
December 31, 2020 at 10:33 pm
aws: region: Pacific Ocean-east 4
Equinix-OC1 datacenter
Casey
January 1, 2021 at 12:10 am
What about increasing water temperature…
PatriotJon
January 1, 2021 at 1:05 am
Horse Huey. The ONLY reason for putting it there, is to keep YOU from ever being able to get to it.
Leo Sheppard
January 1, 2021 at 5:53 pm
I like 👍 this guys teeth! Need the phone 📲 number for that team of dentists.
Gamer007
January 1, 2021 at 5:58 pm
So increase water levels to flood coasts by filling ocean with volume of computers & heating oceans to increase melting ice.
izzzzzz6
January 1, 2021 at 6:11 pm
Warming the oceans. Just what we need right now. lol
Scott Rothman
January 1, 2021 at 6:37 pm
What about Design X Building data canals or channels. Then you’ll be able to conduct analysis on the input and output water temperatures more efficiently. Just a thought
Ian Clark
January 1, 2021 at 6:50 pm
It does make sense, but even better would be if they could lower the actual energy usage of datacentres not just the energy used for cooling.
Lyle Stavast
January 1, 2021 at 9:59 pm
every chip designer out there working to run at fewer watts…
Nick Brouwer
January 1, 2021 at 6:51 pm
Why heat up the water even more can we solve global warming first
Aravindh M
January 1, 2021 at 7:02 pm
What happens when we need to swap a disk?
Lyle Stavast
January 1, 2021 at 9:58 pm
you don’t. you throttle the problem server off and work elsewhere. You’d configure to replicate data across multiple storage options anyway and shift it around to some open space and keep truckin’… You pull the whole unit out to do major upgrades in it as required. I’ve had servers that went $5 years with never rebooting, had storage that you never knew which drive the data was on anyway – one could fail and you’d just add a spare drive already racked up to be active.
Native2458
January 1, 2021 at 7:06 pm
It wouldn’t be called the cloud anymore?!
Jack Blacklense
January 1, 2021 at 7:33 pm
Warming the oceans now?
Apollo Creed
January 1, 2021 at 7:58 pm
I’m a bit of an expert on data centers. I’m not an engineer or an architect but I do deal with them from dozens of different companies every single day and I can wholeheartedly assure you this is a much MUCH better way going forward.
Modern data centers are a massive waste of land energy and resources and they’re just plain ugly to be honest. I’ve seen them ruin the look of huge sections of counties in Virginia. I hope this works out.
Azan Ali
January 1, 2021 at 8:25 pm
Water Cooling taken too seriously 😂
Isosta
January 1, 2021 at 8:33 pm
“moores law doesn’t really apply anymore” yea to transistors, when quantum stuff becomes widely used you’re likely gonna face the same issue of rapid advancement again
philip dias
January 1, 2021 at 8:40 pm
Use heat pipes and heat pumps to keep the servers up top and dumb the heat down into the sea.
The Narrow Road
January 1, 2021 at 8:58 pm
Data from the land evaporated to Cloud data could not bear the heat ..Came down as underwater data …cycle goes on…Nature.
Lyle Stavast
January 1, 2021 at 9:51 pm
As you drive through the country in many places, you’ll see metal cans about 16″ in diameter on fencepost mounts – some are white, others are brushed aluminum looking. Those hold line cards for phone lines. They’re clever because the cards are mounted inside on edge in a radiator – hub and spoke sort of configuration and touch the outside edge – that’s to conduct away heat that comes from the electronics that repeat your call data moving through. They are passively cooled, and are really reliable. I’ve managed a classic data center and the A/C cost were really high… but combining some hardware design to conduct their heat to the mounting brackets more directly, they could do some clever things in rejecting that sort of heat to whatever water bay they’re in… For general computing servers racked as shown, they’re probably really wasting a lot of space that purpose built servers could use, magnifying how much compute/storage could fit inside… Talk AI specific hardware and GPUs along with CPUs, it seems a great option. There’s really no issue managing servers in a contained device like that – you have cabling to allow you to be “local” on a server through a managment lan anyway… Cool stuff – maybe someone can position some in areas to encourage fish farming or something too – or tap the warmed water around it as part of on-shore zone district cooling/heating…
Kim Dahyun
January 1, 2021 at 10:03 pm
they took water cooling to new heights, or in this case, depths.
Michael Horton
January 1, 2021 at 10:17 pm
And then Apple release the M1 faster, cooler, less power
Cedric Bauer
January 1, 2021 at 10:47 pm
Everyone : The ice is melting 😱
Microsoft: 🤫
Ricky Hall
January 2, 2021 at 12:44 am
Hmm, but using a traditional temperature controlled system uses far more energy, which not only in itself generates heat, but the energy generation causes co2 in one regard or another.
Johannes Wipper
January 1, 2021 at 11:13 pm
I have one point: if more companies start to use underwater data centres eventually they won’t bother to fish them out when they don’t use/need them anymore.
chromebomb
January 1, 2021 at 11:42 pm
i like this
Ricky Hall
January 2, 2021 at 12:37 am
The angle of his camera is odd for me. For some reason it seems to distort his face, at least for me. And his large and rounded upper teeth are accentuated with that upward angle.
Jerry Firebaugh
January 2, 2021 at 12:56 am
Sounds like it would be trivially easy to knock an entire data center offline by puncturing the hull.
Everything I like
January 2, 2021 at 1:00 am
Elon: store my data in space. 😎
Charalampos Andrikopoulos
January 2, 2021 at 1:04 am
What happens if someone steel the server is there a system that prevents steeling or the thief’s have all of our data what about that section have they thought that before putting our data down there?
asimo
January 2, 2021 at 1:11 am
It’s feasible if the servers are only used for non sensitive data purposes for obvious security reasons
Ruirodtube
January 2, 2021 at 6:43 pm
Underwater data centers… genius!
Land cost
Heat dissipation
Security
Genius!
Lanchester Naanyane
January 2, 2021 at 6:54 pm
Why did you guys point out the teeth? It’s all I can see now. He’s got a bright smile there😂😂😂😂
Pillowbottom
January 2, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Nice way to warm and change the ocean ecosystem 👍
Sam
January 2, 2021 at 7:21 pm
Who on earth proof read this script.
Almost half the world lives within 120miles off of a coast which means data has a shorter distance to travel?
No.
It means at least for half the world data has to travel 120miles to get to the datacenter…
m mm
January 2, 2021 at 7:52 pm
now marine biologists are going to be turning into tech workers. lol
Mark J
January 2, 2021 at 8:20 pm
I would be concerned about the security from a state actor. Good idea though.
Kris Holt
January 2, 2021 at 8:37 pm
More importantly, how do these data centers combat potential hacking to their umbilical cords back to land? The US, Russians, and certainly other militaries with developed submarine programs have been hacking each other’s under sea comms for decades largely unnoticed.
juan granados
January 2, 2021 at 8:43 pm
year that and also the nordic data center that wors as central hot ac in the winter for a village!
Algrim the Strong
January 2, 2021 at 8:49 pm
Really? Weirdos worrying about the “EXCESS HEAT” dumped into the ocean by a steel server tube? 🤔🙄
Mark C
January 2, 2021 at 9:01 pm
Let’s put these massive heat sinks into the already rapidly warming ocean and expect nothing bad to happen.
Zee
January 2, 2021 at 9:06 pm
soon they’ll fill up oceans with data centres and contribute to the already warming up of oceans and affecting ecological systems
Sidwirb
January 2, 2021 at 10:02 pm
The problem I could see would be related to that failure rate. It’s 8 times lower, but that means it still isn’t zero. So if something breaks (which they still will) there’s no really easy way to replace or fix components
Michael Horner
January 2, 2021 at 10:15 pm
Hillary called…..she wants her server back !
karma tam
January 2, 2021 at 10:17 pm
What’s
Next
Baby
Diapers?
John P
January 2, 2021 at 10:37 pm
WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT???
Scotty B
January 2, 2021 at 10:54 pm
Okay 1 of these doesn’t effect the ocean temperature “that significantly” but 10, 15 or even a 100 of them would probably not be good.
Kori114
January 2, 2021 at 11:04 pm
So… Is this actually about avoiding property tax? Because none of the explanations really make sense. Just because people are close to the water, doesn’t mean you need to put your server in the ocean. Buy land and put a data center where people are.
Mobi
January 2, 2021 at 11:32 pm
So according to “many” the oceans are already warming up.. Lets put some heaters in it.
LEVANTATE Y ORA
January 3, 2021 at 12:06 am
they are doing this because there is no satellite
eagle
January 3, 2021 at 12:18 am
amazing
K B
January 3, 2021 at 12:33 am
Apple will lay their data servers in the ocean too, after Microsoft and Google have successfully installed theirs in outer space.
rachel gilmore
January 3, 2021 at 12:37 am
could be a part of an overall solution…..
Synecdoche
January 3, 2021 at 12:55 am
400 years later: Why our oceans are overheated
Andre Basden
January 3, 2021 at 1:13 am
I’d be really interested to know how much heat energy one data center this size puts out. It sounds like they only really measured it’s impact on the environment locally, but if this design was brought up to scale? With several thousands of times the servers (and heat) generated? I feel like this could be a huge problem. However at the same time I guess I don’t know if there’s an effective difference between generating that heat in the atmosphere or in the ocean.
Would love to see more talk about this
EK Lim
January 3, 2021 at 1:13 am
iSea !
Soljarag5
January 3, 2021 at 11:14 pm
“I know what alot of you are thinking “….. Nope that’s not what I was thinking
Imdareaper
January 3, 2021 at 11:24 pm
Bro your teeth are so white! like it’s so white I can tell your lips are chapping!
Tovy B
January 3, 2021 at 11:25 pm
His teeth are brighter than my future
Maxime Santa
January 3, 2021 at 11:28 pm
We already have global warming problems and these idiots are planning on heating the sea…
Indy Ramsay
January 3, 2021 at 11:29 pm
BUT HOW DO THEY GET INTERNET L
Timmy
January 3, 2021 at 11:34 pm
So in short, everything runs fine until you open “Windows”…
Dalim Ahmed
January 3, 2021 at 11:50 pm
Is it weird that I find that guys teeth really creepy? Idk it’s overly white. Lol
Derek
January 3, 2021 at 11:55 pm
3:27 look like she’s under water with the server
Death Gun
January 4, 2021 at 12:05 am
I think burrying Servers underwater is going to be a niche market in the future, because you can´t use the heat for something usefuel like heating or algae production.
MannyXVIII
January 4, 2021 at 12:21 am
Just be careful to not heat up the water at the bottom of the Atlantic too much. I don’t want an ice age to happen in my lifetime.
Edit: An Inconvenient truth. The cause is reversed, but the effect the same. Stopping the currents of cold waters towards the equator by warming them would cause the next ice age … But then again. Maybe a planet with a fever could use it.
Edit2: yes they addressed the point of temperature. They just need to keep in mind that the effects of large scale deployments are harder to predict. After all, we were once sure that we couldn’t possibly change the world climate …. The world is do big, we could never have a meaningful impact
Foxtrot39
January 4, 2021 at 12:27 am
So french military submakers are going to assist in the most efficient watercooled system for data center, thats some “gotta see it to believe it” stuff
tereshKOVA
January 4, 2021 at 12:41 am
Dad : son why u put your pc in a bathtub?
Him : if it can survive there it can survive anywhere
Ricardo Espinel
January 4, 2021 at 12:41 am
Yay!!! Let’s heat up the ocean even more so all that annoying remaining plankton finally snaps dead
Irwin Espinoza
January 4, 2021 at 12:43 am
Let me stop you right there so that means any other countries wanting to spy would be possible on a low key level
Byte.
January 4, 2021 at 12:47 am
Who tf Opens his mouse so wide like that guy.. wtf
Maxwell Naslund
January 4, 2021 at 12:53 am
I dislike this man based off his first sentence.
03chrisv
January 4, 2021 at 12:58 am
Moore’s law still applies for ARM processors and GPUs.
TheCuteTimo
January 4, 2021 at 1:09 am
Yes, lets heat the ocean even more.
Please dont, we need them
Wayne Flanigan
January 4, 2021 at 1:14 am
So find where they are and a depth charge or torpedo takes them out.
Don Ascanio
January 4, 2021 at 1:15 am
I wonder if they would build more permanent structures with a sort of living quarters for people to stay at the bottom for extended periods for maintenance without having to retrieve the tubes. Maybe something similar to how deep sea oil well operators work except instead of oil they work with data.
Dennis Anderson
January 4, 2021 at 1:15 am
Should be much easier to just have the datacenter onland close to an lake/ocean och just take cooling water from there.
GRINTECH
January 4, 2021 at 1:17 am
Can’t wait to see Linus build a PC on the sea floor
vinish shetty
January 4, 2021 at 1:19 am
No borders no taxes no shutdowns no rules all you got to do is service them once a year…
Mike Cology
January 4, 2021 at 1:27 am
Perfect for an adversary with a submarine. Lift that server tube off its foundation and BYE BYE! Hacked!
junior morales
January 4, 2021 at 1:32 am
So Microsoft is the reason for global warming!!!
MrGilly
January 4, 2021 at 11:00 pm
new gta6 heist mission
EUROREPAIRS
January 4, 2021 at 11:01 pm
Dumping GJ’s of heat into the sea instead of homes. Is stupid.
Check out what facebook did in denmark
grumpybill
January 4, 2021 at 11:09 pm
So warming ocean waters is okay now????
grumpybill
January 4, 2021 at 11:12 pm
Are these the servers Hillary Clinton destroyed??
Jack 1
January 4, 2021 at 11:14 pm
They told you that your data was in the cloud. now they tell us it’s as far away as possible from the clouds.
Why doesnt Microsoft trust the clouds! what did they do?
Blakelikesfood
January 4, 2021 at 11:15 pm
Seems ridiculous vs a sealed tube ~60f underground.
Xyst Patterns
January 4, 2021 at 11:19 pm
No, just no. Ocean temps have already risen killing so much Coral with just one to two degree changes. Watch “Chasing Coral” on Netflix.
Yes, the water cooling method is strikingly effective, congrats on figuring it out. Honestly. But imagine if every company starts doing this and there’s millions of servers underwater.
Did one car or one factory cause an exponential growth of emissions and heat in the atmosphere?
Mr. Tattoo ASMR
January 4, 2021 at 11:34 pm
Who made a double take of that thumbnail. 😂
. Rebancos Elijah Flores
January 4, 2021 at 11:46 pm
So is it the deep dark web?
OutofContent
January 4, 2021 at 11:58 pm
yeah but more and more and more it will get hot
M L
January 4, 2021 at 11:59 pm
that is where they store their bitcoin
impicker
January 5, 2021 at 12:02 am
You also forgot that these data centers also have data. Information that a government can be demanded if the data center was located in that country. If the data was held not in a country then the government cant demand Microsoft to hand over those data.
lagunasoroco
January 5, 2021 at 12:10 am
Global warming anyone?
SamsTwn40
January 5, 2021 at 12:18 am
‘Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only.’
Ronin Regime
January 5, 2021 at 12:22 am
This is like a space probe or a satellite. You have to think of everything in advance cause you won’t get to them easily or at all
TheRunningDad
January 5, 2021 at 12:27 am
Isn’t bill gates one of the wienies crying about global warming and the rise in ocean temps? But he wants to increase ocean temps with underwater data centers.
Abby
January 5, 2021 at 12:39 am
UUUUNNNDDDDAAA THE SEEEEAAAAA!! UNNNDAAAA THEEE SEEEAAAA 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫
Arnold vd M
January 5, 2021 at 12:44 am
Data centers like evoswitch have a backup in case there is a power outage.
the power comes from green energy sources of course.
Customers can also maintain and upgrade their servers.
For example an SSD-storage upgrade, a memory upgrade or a complete replacement of the server.
You don’t dive into the ocean to replace a server stored in a container in the ocean.
If it’s nesecarry to replace a server, all servers have to be replaced.
Exaemo
January 5, 2021 at 12:49 am
So we’ve screwed the atmosphere temperature, time to screw the world’s oceans temperatures as well? Not that we haven’t already started messing that up too…
WILLIAM BOYLE
January 5, 2021 at 1:01 am
Asparagus
Jaime Aguilera
January 5, 2021 at 1:01 am
Grow up no one cars about the Environmental impact.
Tokaga29
January 5, 2021 at 1:06 am
This man has one Amazing dentist…
Zetro Ce
January 5, 2021 at 1:24 am
This is the next climate change problem. Leave the sea temperature as is. If this gets seriously implicated on an industrial level, a LOT of sea creatures are going to die. And that’s only a fraction of the consequences.
matthew yong
January 5, 2021 at 1:25 am
this dam good
Spangler@rt
January 5, 2021 at 1:27 am
Does no one realize that adding more heat to the ocean causes global warming and the killing of coral and other ecosystems?! 🤦♂️
TRASE
January 5, 2021 at 11:49 pm
That’s so cool
Alexey Lvov
January 5, 2021 at 11:55 pm
Is Internet flooded with trash because ocean is flooded with trash?
John Edwards
January 6, 2021 at 12:02 am
yeah lets pollute our ocean even more just for data centers. geez people wake up stop killing our planet.
crazy_mind1262
January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am
You know, by saying, “I’m gonna resist the urge to make a Disney reference” you defeated the point. That WAS a Disney reference.
HForceClan
January 6, 2021 at 12:07 am
“”Pc’s do not have big performance jumps anymore””
*AMD has entered the chat*
*Lisa Su is writing…*
Lisa Su: u wot mate
EnglishBias
January 6, 2021 at 12:08 am
This is where the put the Call of Duty servers. Makes so much sense now.
Ubersnuber
January 6, 2021 at 12:10 am
Didn’t know that Jules Verne worked for Disney.
Riley Ferguson
January 6, 2021 at 12:23 am
That’s exactly where I’ve been throwing my car batteries
Zendif
January 6, 2021 at 12:26 am
So does that mean they’d change the name of “The Cloud” to something like, “The Reef”?
adrian kramer
January 6, 2021 at 12:37 am
So when we create advanced ai and it goes rogue we can’t shut it down easily
Owem Mcintyre
January 6, 2021 at 12:40 am
So basically I’m gonna make my pc airtight and put it in my fish tank and I get more betterer fps? Thanks guys!!
Amy's Garbage Can
January 6, 2021 at 1:25 am
look up mineral oil submersion cooling. it works for awhile but the boards break apart.
Peter Wallin
January 6, 2021 at 12:46 am
What effect will this have on global warming? Warming the oceans is the biggest threat to our way of living. One of these may not make a big impact but if this becomes standard we are talking about a huge impact.
DaMcPaddy
January 6, 2021 at 12:53 am
Move it to space, underwater is a waste of time.
Kent McKean
January 6, 2021 at 12:57 am
If Microsoft hopes to keep these servers running for “years” and don’t plan on having service techs learning how to dive, they must plan on putting Linux OS on the servers.
CNLY
January 6, 2021 at 12:58 am
is that lil dicky?
big bob
January 6, 2021 at 12:58 am
No move the cloud into the cloud
Max Schuit
January 6, 2021 at 1:06 am
what is wrong with this guy his mounth
Max Schuit
January 6, 2021 at 1:07 am
and after seeing the video i dont understand why they did it
Stephen Villagonzalo
January 6, 2021 at 1:12 am
Lesson Learned = Human Intervention causes higher computer failure rate
hey ning
January 6, 2021 at 1:13 am
Repairing or renewing this servers will be freaking expensive
LKNANML
January 6, 2021 at 1:14 am
My H20 rig doesn’t sound as impressive anymore…
Hef Williams
January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am
not sure i like the idea of slowly boiling our oceans, as for the visiting fish and sea life, they’re probably wondering “what the heck is this thing in our home, how can we get rid of it”
John Don
January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am
Okay who really opens their mouth that much when they talk
SoulTalk
January 6, 2021 at 1:19 am
Yeah let’s kill ocean life and raise ocean temperatures with huge data centers in ocean
the8419
January 6, 2021 at 1:25 am
Good, I wanted them to do that.