A country has a data center that is more than 30,000 high-end PCs and uses the best liquid cooling that the earth has to offer

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A new arithmetic center was inaugurated in China. The special thing about it: the building is in the middle of the sea and uses nature as cooling.

A new data center was recently inaugurated off the coast of the Chinese province of Hainan. The English -language magazine PCGamer reports. But the special thing about it is not the data center itself, but the location: because the hardware was placed in the sea. The new underwater data center is connected to other data centers via cables.

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Data center in the sea should be as strong as 30,000 gaming PCs

What kind of data center is that? Overall, a system of more than 400 high -performance servers was installed off the coast of the Chinese province of Hainan. The China Media Group claims that the computing power of the entire center is comparable to that of 30,000 high-end gaming PCs.

However, a concrete example or a direct comparison is not mentioned. Which hardware is installed is also not revealed, due to economic restrictions, Chinese companies are now increasingly using their own developments.

The company also explains that the new underwater data center will be able to support Deepseek-supported AI assistants with 7,000 discussions per second.

The underwater center has a length of 18 meters and a diameter of 3.6 meters. According to China Media Group (CMG), it is connected to the customers’ data terminals via a nearby coastal station.

The sea cools much better than a mechanical cooling system on the mainland

Why do you build a server in the sea? Data centers accommodate and manage the huge amounts of information that people generate and consume every day. The problem with this is that such servers are incredibly power -hungry and create large amounts of heat. Placing a server in the sea, according to Techtarget.com, has several advantages:

  • The technical hardware lasts longer under water because people do not push the containers or damage them.
  • The air humidity within the data center under water is actually less than in a comparable server farm on land. This hardly creates corrosion.
  • Tiefser -folding centers use the cool capacity of the ocean to keep consistently low temperatures. An active, energy -intensive mechanical cooling system is not required.

    • The new center in China is also not the first of this kind: Microsoft already tested the first data centers under water: “Project Natick” by Microsoft between 2015 and 2018 was one of the first underwater data centers. From 2020 Microsoft hired the Natick project.

    Incidentally, the topic of cooling is always a big topic for servers. At one hand, millions of people could no longer use their bank accounts: because someone accidentally switched off water cooling, 2.5 million people could not pay their bill

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