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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

submitted 11 months ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[-] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All hardware is "disposable" in the sense that it becomes obsolete after a few years, and the electricity to keep using it costs more than replacing it with new hardware with better performance per watt.

Maybe once Moore's law is finally dead and buried that'll stop being the case, but it hasn't happened quite yet.

This certainly isn't "green" in terms of disposal, but I'm not sure it's any worse than the status quo alternative of a landfill, either.

[-] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 2 points 11 months ago

But we recycle e-waste. You're not recycling shit that's been corroded by the ocean. It's ruined, not just obsolete. We already have fully-renewable data-centers. This just makes more problems than it solves which is why there's been no update to this article from 2018.