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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 18:26:43 GMT
This site is saying Microsoft sank a baby data center all by it's lonesome in the Pacific Ocean somewhere, supposedly because it's cooler there than on land and cheaper than renting/buying land for the computers. That smells fishy to me. It's like Google's barge centers, it makes no sense. What will Microsoft do when something needs replacing? Sites like "the internet archive" replace several harddrives per day, and Google replaces them by the crateful every day. Plus, damage done to oil pipelines and cables, both laying on the ocean bottom and buried in the ocean bottom, are damaged by storms, boat anchors, and fishing boats. And computers are getting to be so small now, even the mini-itx is comparatively large. Your cellphone is a 700Mhz computer, the Raspi was derived from cabletv box systems, and there's a faster me-too board using cell phone tech. IBM has been making Ghz-speed gumstix-sized computers for years. The only thing taking up space anymore is the power supply and the harddrives. In one foot of length in a 4ft diameter tube, you can cram 800 harddrives. If those are 2TB drives, that's 1.6Pb. For the cost to run cable to power them up and cool them for a month, i cannot help but imagine Microsoft can rent a tiny walk-in closet somewhere to host them. Perhaps at the foot of cell phone towers? Microsoft is saying this about it.I wish i knew what they were really doing.
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Post by jeff on Feb 28, 2016 4:00:33 GMT
You can see that it's not practical, with all the corrosion from just 3-4 months undersea...
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