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ChuckMcM on Sept 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete,...

The engineer in me wishes there were more hard numbers, like "what is the operational cost of the wind farm?"

One of the fun exercises to run would be a win farm that was powering a submerged data center (so that it could dissipate heat into the ocean).

foota on Sept 25, 2019 [–]

The Google data center in Hamina, Finland makes use of seawater for cooling, I believe. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/hamina/

driverdan on Sept 25, 2019 | [–]

Google also had experimental sea cooled servers in the bay for a while. I'm not sure if they're still running that program.

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