To develop its economy, China bet on artificial intelligence,, Cloud computing And other digital technology – and a large portion of the bet with rapidly involves building data centers to maximize computing power. But these multiple collections of servers extends the increasing amount of energyand each of the cycles Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water a day to bring the heat they make.
That means that These facilities – in China and forward – greater compete with water demand Related directly to human survival, from agriculture to daily drinking. Many companies fit their data centers to Some of the most dry regions of the worldincluding Arizona, Spain parts, and the Middle East, because the dry air reduces risks from humidity, according to an investigation by nonprofit journalist organization origin and the Guardian. In part to solve water concerns, China currently puts a data center in the largest area: the ocean. This construction of June begins with a water center with the power under water about six miles on Shanghai coast, USA in China AI hubs. (Read more: What is Google’s Pay for AI around?)
“Chinese ambitious approach is a bold move toward low-carbon digital infrastructure,” as an analyst focusing on tank emers, focusing on data centers.
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Press the Data Center
Data centers saves information and make complex calculations for businesses, whose increase in automation is continuously ramping such needs. These facilities consume several electricity and TERS Since their servers work uninterrupted and in close proximity – and they gave hot waste as a product, which can damage the equipment and destroy the data. So they should always be cool.
Slightly 40 percent of electricity consumed in an ordinary data center for this purpose. Most of that force is used in Chill Watersprayed in the air surrounding servers or allowed to evaporate their temperatures. That water can come from underground, from adjacent rivers or streams, or from recovered waste.
The interpretation of an artist in a powerful air with power under the water built on shore in Shanghai.
Shanghai Hailanyun technology
Instead data data centers use the pipes to PUP SEACHEAS By a radiator behind the server racks to absorb heat and carry it. Hailailanun – The Company is sometimes referred to as Hicloud to be behind the Shanghai data account conducted by a Corrected Communication project in communications communications in common Campo centers
The Shanghai center is also connected to a nearby air farm fields that are set to supply 97 percent of its energy, says Heathergiver.
The first phase of the project is designed to have 198 server racks – enough to hold 396 to 792 AI-Maylable Servers – and begins the beginning of September, Li. Expected to provide enough computing power to complete the GPT-3.5-equivalent-3.5-large language model released 2022 And used in good-tune chatgpt-within a day, he added. However the center of Shanghai in Hailanyun is small compared to a typical ground-based on the 3,000 standard racks, while a superscale version can contain more than 10,000.
Turning the US
At the core of the $ 223-million rod of Shanghai in Hailanyun a Microsoft pioneering technology more a decade ago Under an effort called project Natickwhere the company has fallen into a capsule-caps on the spack-carding holding over 800 servers 117 feet under the shores of Scotland. After carrying the pod Two years agoMicrosoft found that underwater data centers are “reliable, practical and use strong force.”
Experiment also resulted in fewer broken servers compared to ground data centers because the ship was sealed and filled with nitrogen, less corrosive than oxygen, Microsoft As to a 2020 press release. The lack of people also means that the equipment is avoiding physical contacts or actions that can cause their injury to an on-land center, the company says.
Hailanun has set the first round of the Underwater Data Center in the seashore of the shores of Hainan on December 2022.
Shanghai Hailanyun technology
But there is Microsoft IS reported Belved Project Natick. A company spokesman does not answer questions when or not the project is completed. However, they provide a statement: “While we do not currently have water data centers, we continue to use the Prophet Natick as a research destination around the Data Center Center Center.”
Hailaannun is aimed at American companies: If the Shanghai project was successful, LI expected his company in the coastal data centers, air support with Chinese government support.
Zhang Ning, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, specializing in a series of pilot replacing less than 30 months “
Environmental concerns
Despite the apparent benefits of the data centers under water, some concerns remain – especially with potential environmental impacts. Microsoft researchers find their pod caused some localized sea warmings, even if the effect is limited. “Only water metross moubtream in a Natick Vessel will get a few thousand in a degree warmer than most,” they WRITES.
But other researchers say that the in-date center of data can damage the aquatic biodiversity of an ocean warming-a period of unusual ocean temperature. In cases, the outlet water from the container can be warmer and take less oxygen to live, a 2022 Paper said.
Two water-bearing containers carrying servers and other equipment lowered to the seashore of Hainan as part of the first commercial data of China data on November 2023.
Shanghai Hailanyun technology
Another concern is security. A 2024 LEARN found to be the Undersea data centers can be destroyed Through some noises carried under the underwater speaker, raising concerns about malicious attacks using the sound.
In response to such concerns, Hailanun said the undersea data centers are “Environmentally friendly,” which is a sort of river data around the water around the water, “says LI.” This is almost not important to any big impact. “
Undersea’s data concept seems to grow appealing to China front. Countries including South Korea Also informed plans to pursue them, while J’Tan and Bitapore Subscribers of data centers floating over the ocean instead.
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