data centres underwater, a lot fewer things can go wrong. that might seem a bit counter intuitive but we can completely seal that environment. it has to be to go underwater. that means that there is no human operator error that s allowed inside. we can remove all of the kind of natural gases that we can find here and put gases in that keep the computers running extremely efficiently. and we can use that natural cooling power of the sea to keep the computing at the right temperature for the entire time. and all of that adds up to this really nice, small, portable, basically underwater cloud if you will., underwater cloud, if you will. how much is it up to governments to make demands of the tech industry on what it needs, and how much is it up to big tech to devise new solutions to show governments what can be done? i think it s an entirely collaborative process. i think about it about like trying to move a heavy dresser
the naturally colder air but there are other options as well. microsoft has been running an experimentjust off the coast of 0rkney and they put a data centre underwater. what could possibly go wrong? let s find out. lucas joppa is chief environmental officer at microsoft. welcome. so the idea with this is you are using colder seawater to cool the computers? yes, exactly. you asked what could go wrong. it turns out when you put data centres underwater, a lot fewer things can go wrong. that might seem a bit counter intuitive but we can completely seal that environment. it has to be to go underwater. that means that there is no human operator error that s allowed inside. we can remove all of the kind of natural gases that we can find here and put gases in that keep the computers running extremely efficiently. and we can use the natural cooling power of the sea to keep the computing at the right temperature for the entire time. and all of that adds up
seawater to cool the computers? yes, exactly. you asked what could go wrong. it turns out when you put data centres underwater, a lot fewer things can go wrong. that might seem a bit counter intuitive, but we can completely seal that environment. it has to be to go underwater. that means that there is no human operator error that s allowed inside. we can remove all of the kind of natural gases that we can find here and put gases in that keep the computers running extremely efficiently. and we can use the natural cooling power of the sea to keep the computing at the right temperature for the entire time. and all of that adds up to this really nice, small, portable, basically underwater cloud, if you will. how much is it up to governments to make demands of the tech industry on what it needs, and how much is it up to big tech to devise new solutions to show governments what can be done? i think it s an entirely
so the idea with this is you are using colder seawater to cool the computers? yes, exactly. you asked what could go wrong. it turns out when you put data centres underwater, a lot fewer things can go wrong. that might seem a bit counter intuitive, but we can completely seal that environment. it has to be to go underwater. that means that there is no human operator error that s allowed inside. we can remove all of the kind of natural gases that we can find here and put gases in that keep the computers running extremely efficiently. and we can use the natural cooling power of the sea to keep the computing at the right temperature for the entire time. and all of that adds up to this really nice, small, portable, basically underwater cloud, if you will. how much is it up to governments to make demands of the tech industry on what it needs, and how much is it up to big tech to devise new solutions to show
tech is contributing to global emissions. for example, there are data centres all over the world filled with power hungry computers but also filled with power hungry cooling systems. some data centres are being moved north so they can use the naturally colder air but there are other options as well. microsoft has been running an experimentjust off the coast of 0rkney and they put a data centre underwater. what could possibly go wrong? let s find out. lucas joppa is chief environmental officer at microsoft. welcome. so the idea with this is you are using colder seawater to cool the computers? yes, exactly. you asked what could go wrong. it turns out when you put data centres underwater, a lot fewer things can go wrong. that might seem a bit counter intuitive but we can completely seal that environment. it has to be to go underwater. that means that there is no human operator error that s allowed inside. we can remove all of the kind of natural gases that we can find here and put gases