Google Data Center In Ocean
Maintaining the right temperature inside our data centers is a crucial part of what keeps them stable.
Google data center in ocean. The testing is part of microsoft s plan dubbed project natick an ongoing research project to build and run a data center that is submerged in the ocean which the company believes could make data centers faster cost effective environmentally friendly and easier to set up. The development project was maintained under tight secrecy. The logic is sound. Bringing data centers close to hubs of computing power benefits customers enabling smoother web surfing or game playing by cutting down the back and forth between users and servers.
A patent google filed in 2008 laid out plans for a data center on a barge that is continuously powered by ocean currents using sea water to cool the servers. Shortly thereafter google declared that the two massive and secretly built infrastructures were merely interactive learning centers a space where people can learn about new technology. For now project natick is an applied research project focused on determining the economic viability of operating containerized datacenters offshore near major population centers to provide cloud computing for a world increasingly dependent on internet connectivity. This is all a part of our commitment to making a positive impact on the environment.
The data centers are 250 feet long 72 feet wide 16 feet deep. World s first underwater data center. Google has said nothing but the hulking structures built out of shipping containers and shielded by scaffolding stirred intense sleuthing and speculation on wednesday. Microsoft says nearly half the world s population lives within 150 km 120 miles of the ocean.
Microsoft has dropped a 40 foot long data center pod onto the seafloor off the coast from the european marine energy centre in orkney north of scotland. That s a fairly remote location but microsoft s thinking behind phase two of its data center in the sea research project natick. In a startling new take on data center engineering google has filed a patent for a water based data center that uses the ocean to provide power and cooling. Here tieg weathers who works in water maintenance in council bluffs iowa cuts a piece of pipe to patch into a new cooling system.
The internet giant appears to be constructing floating data centres off the coasts of california and maine behind layers of elaborate security. Google data centers are achieving zero waste leading in energy efficiency and running on renewable energy.