Cooling Data Centers

[Sidney Reilly]

China Sinks 1,300 tons of A.I. servers into the ocean.

Why not put these data centers in high-altitude, high-latitude polar regions. The absolute coldest locations feature frigid, sub-zero mean annual temperatures, with the Eastern Antarctic Plateau claiming the title of the planet's most extreme environment. Places such as: The Eastern Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica; Antarctica, Greenland, Oymyakon & Verkhoyansk, Russia; or the territory of Nunavut in Canada.

Why not save the world's dwindling water supply and keep the oceans from further heating up and place these data centers into outter space?

They won't do it, but how about we just get rid of these data centers altogether. We've lived without A.I. Data Centers all these years but I don't see anyone going for that idea now that the genie is out of it's bottle.

 

[NCDinosFan]

China Sinks 1,300 tons of A.I. servers into the ocean.

Why not put these data centers in high-altitude, high-latitude polar regions. The absolute coldest locations feature frigid, sub-zero mean annual temperatures, with the Eastern Antarctic Plateau claiming the title of the planet's most extreme environment. Places such as: The Eastern Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica; Antarctica, Greenland, Oymyakon & Verkhoyansk, Russia; or the territory of Nunavut in Canada.

Why not save the world's dwindling water supply and keep the oceans from further heating up and place these data centers into outter space?

They won't do it, but how about we just get rid of these data centers altogether. We've lived without A.I. Data Centers all these years but I don't see anyone going for that idea now that the genie is out of it's bottle.

The word is all encompassing when it shouldn't be.

A Data Center in the context of what's being advertised could be one for Infrastructure (routing/server hosting). Most of the places people are complaining about being a "datacenter" is really just air-cooled buildings that are used to route internet traffic.


Most of what goes on in those buildings is a mix of internet infra (the backbone of the internet getting the packets where they need to go from the local wireless towers/isp local/isp central nodes). At the same time most companies will have a bunch of computers in them to create the ability to sell off cloud services (they have the hardware, you can just rent it). So the confusing part is these buildings connect to eachother physically, and physically to local nodes and towers. But within the center itself companies can sign agreements to share data intra-datacenter.

It's a really complex topic that requires a lot to go into it, but it's not just AI. Most of it is internet infra, cloud computing, and cloud data storage offered out to companies.

If you want to know the true "danger" of infastructure like this being setup you can look into the likes of Edward snowden's prism concept and upscale it to be targeting datacenters instead of direct providers. I believe 5 years ago AWS and Google did a contract with the NSA that gave them a lot of money?


Also at the same time Microsoft already explored those options (skinking the servers) with Project Natic.

TDLR:

Datacenters aren't just AI, they are internet infra, they are cloud computing, and cloud storage. The datacenters are contracted with the NSA to some extent (google/aws(Amazon), microsoft fought for the contract too). when people are commenting on "AI datacenters" they are speaking on all datacenters becuase an "AI datacenter" is a normal datacenter becuase everything is compute, storage, routing when it comes to "Datacenters" that provide us the backbone of the internet.