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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@beehaw.org

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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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[–] LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

Oh no doubt. It makes a great deal of sense.

I'm just curious what the actual heat output is (avg, min, max, in vs out), and what the environmental impact is.

Will there be biofouling because the warm seawater is desirable?

Will it even be viable offshore from places like Miami?

Can it produce too much heat for the local environment? Probably not one, but what about after this scale-up with renewables like the article mentions?

At what scale would it begin to disrupt things like the AMOC?