curious, wouldn't warming oceans with data centers not be good environmentally either?
Your post above seems to indicate that you would rather have no datacenters within the Earth's thermodynamic system? Good luck!
I used to work on this project - water cooling is more efficient than air and heat generated by computing is the same. The heat ends up in the ocean anyways.
thanks, is there a paper on the topic that MS published that I can read? Would love to understand more of the detail and analysis
Sadly, no. The physics follow though - water has a much higher specific heat than air, so you have to move much less water than air for equivalent cooling. The production of heat by the processors is the same (and you save on air handling electricity/cooling processes, as the water is already cool in the ocean). As for the oceans absorbing the heat, that's how it works anyways - a unit of heat released in the atmosphere has to be sunk somewhere and the ocean is the "Earth's biggest heat bucket".