Located 35 meters below sea level, the underwater blocks both solve the problem of land shortage and benefit from the natural cooling properties of sea water. This innovative approach is expected to save 122 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually; This is equivalent to the energy consumption of 160,000 Chinese people. Each underwater unit weighs 1,300 tons and has the computing power equivalent to 6 million computers.
While Microsoft was exploring similar concepts in 2016, China’s undersea data center in Hainan became the world’s first commercial undersea data storage project.
Source: Ferra
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