Chinese company Highlander is building a server pod near Shanghai, where it will be submerged underwater to reduce the power consumption used by the facility for cooling. According to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327741/china-tests-underwater-data-centres-reduce-ai-carbon-footprint?module=top_story&pgtype=section” data-url=”https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3327741/china-tests-underwater-data-centres-reduce-ai-carbon-footprint?module=top_story&pgtype=section” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>South China Morning Post, Highlander is expected to sink the underwater pods in October. The servers will operate commercially, with state-owned institutions like China Telecom being among the first customers.
This isn’t the first underwater data center project; data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/microsoft-shelves-its-underwater-data-center” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/microsoft-shelves-its-underwater-data-center”>concluded its own experiment off the coast of…
