UNDERWATER DATA CENTRE BENEFITS
• They can be deployed quickly and run for years without any human intervention or repairs
• They serve as ‘ anchor tenants ’ for land-based renewable energy farms
• Underwater centres help cloud providers manage growth in a sustainable way
• They reduce construction costs and limit costs associated with cooling machines prototype , supplied by onshore power , was actually deployed in the Pacific Ocean for four months in 2015 ).
The Northern Isles was deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre , a test site for tidal turbines and wave energy converters . Tidal currents there travel up to 9 miles per hour at peak intensity and the sea surface roils with waves that reach more than 60 feet in stormy conditions .
The experiment , which concluded in the summer , yielded some interesting findings , principally that servers were up to eight times more reliable than their dry-land counterparts . Alongside
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