Underwater data centers for energy efficiency and to harvest energy from the sea

In an era where cloud computing is an indispensable part of any software solutions provider company, the demand to migrate to cloud computing has flared up at the same rate.  The world of cloud computing and data management with underwater data centers is fast taking shape.  The idea was simple: an underwater data center can provide faster and low-latency data access to countries and places that have less land mass and are near large coastal areas. It is important to look at the bigger picture of underwater data centers.

A company called Subsea has developed data center pods that can be submerged in the ocean to let the water naturally keep them cool with other deployments planned for the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. Cooling is normally very energy-intensive. The cooling system under the water with vessels filled with nitrogen works well on the seabed, but not so well on the land.  Subsea Cloud aims to have its first commercial location off the west coast of the US near Washington. let's talk about the future that the pioneer of this new approach to housing data centers is looking at when it comes to cloud computing.

The underwater data center will open for business:

Microsoft researchers have a history of tackling challenges of vital importance to the company in innovative ways, even if the required work is far outside of Microsoft's core expertise. The key is to assemble engineering teams by uniting Microsoft employees with colleagues from partner companies. Microsoft in an official post confirmed that underwater data centers are reliable, practical, and use energy sustainably. Microsoft wants to submerge data centers to keep them cool and to harvest energy from the sea. Microsoft said the concept was proven to be feasible, and said it is logistically, environmentally, and economically practical.

Data centers have become known for their high levels of energy use, causing strain on electricity grids. Microsoft has been working on centers for years through Project Natick. Unlike the Subsea pods, the Project Natick enclosure was filled with Nitrogen. Subsea Cloud has two other underwater data centers in the making, located in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. Subsea plans to co-locate data centers at sites offering various types of renewable energy infrastructure, and it aims for its data centers to consume renewable power only by 2026.

One of the potent reasons which might force companies like Amazon and Google to seriously ponder over underwater data centers is the amount of population they will serve. The reason underwater data centers could be built more quickly than land-based ones is easy enough to understand. One other standard reasoning, which makes the future case for underwater data centers more plausible is the effectiveness it brings to the fore. An underwater data center would be located within a few kilometers of the coast and placed between 50 and 200 meters below the surface.