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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      No one does maintenance on the server farms. It costs more money to send someone in than to let the parts slowly die until the farm no longer is economically viable. Once that happens, you sell the whole farm to a recycler.

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                No it isn’t. What DC do you work at? We recycle hardware as much as fucking possible until its worthless and then it’s sold to anyone who wants it in the company first and then the rest is sold on ebay and craigslist.

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                  Ahhh, so this is why you are so angry in this thread. You’re the competition. Not exactly an unbiased third party.

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                    @snowbell having fun #trolling ? Or just a bit lacking in holding the #environment as a core personal worldview/value-set ? If you did, I think you might immediately have understood— as I did — that the other person has 1. a strong ethos around the environment, which dovetails with 2. their strong sense of professionalism.

                    It’s the difference between friendly competition whom one actually can RESPECT (even when you disagree), vs seeing the other party as a literal piece of turd-pile because the treat their stakeholders like turds.

                    M$ is extremely well known for being the latter.

                    Also, I doubt that someone at the engineer-level (low on the totem pole) is seriously going to give two f***s about their multinational richass CEOs or investors “competing” with each other.

                    I sure as sh*t wouldn’t. It’s just a money game. Zero loyalty

                    (as any corporate drone knows (see also Dilbert comic strip).)

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      The container is regarded as a single unit; if a server inside the container fails the functions of that server are offloaded to another available server and it is taken out of service.

      Once enough servers in a container are offline the entire unit has all computational load offloaded to another, identical container with sufficient capacity.

      Then the now-offline unit is retrieved and serviced; probably a ground-up rebuild of all components.

      … but I do like the idea of some dude in a wetsuit trying to replace a memory stick.

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          The salt water won’t come into contact with anything except pumps, a heat exchanger and the exterior of the container.
          The servers live in a nitrogen environment, so it reduces corrosion, I doubt there would be any dirt or dust. It’s going to be an incredible sterile environment.