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China has switched on 2,000 servers under the sea that nobody is allowed to touch

China has put a 24MW underwater data centre into commercial operation off Shanghai, sinking roughly 2,000 servers into pressure-resistant modules cooled by seawater and powered directly by an offshore wind farm. The Rs 2,000 crore Lingang facility claims a PUE under 1.15 and zero freshwater use. It builds on Microsoft's Project Natick, which sank 855 servers off Orkney in 2018, recorded…

China has switched on 2,000 servers under the sea that nobody is allowed to touch

We haven't written up this one. Times of India has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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