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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

submitted 1 year ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can't help but think a couple decades from now it's going to start causing us problems

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[–] mawkishdave@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The amount of heat we would put in the ocean from this would be like pouring a cup of hot water into one of the great lakes. This isn't a issue and would be better for the environment as we are not using all these power hungry ways to cool them.

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

True, this is putting less heat into the atmosphere than running air conditioners to move the heat outside before radiating it away.