{
  "id": 7091645,
  "title": "China has switched on 2,000 servers under the sea that nobody is allowed to touch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/china-has-switched-on-2-000-servers-under-the-sea-that-nobody-is",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-13T09:10:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/china-has-put-2000-servers-in-sea-near-shanghai-taking-off-from-a-microsoft-project-that-shutdown-in-2020-where-the-company-sank-855-servers-in-north-sea/articleshow/134190348.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}