In sea and in space, China makes AI data centres more sustainable



In sea and in space, China makes AI data centres more sustainable
Running and cooling the data centres that power computer networks requires a lot of energy and water, and the world needs a lot more of them with the roll-out of artificial intelligence (AI).
What if they could be powered and cooled more sustainably – installed deep underwater, placed high in the mountains, or fired into space where solar power is free and limitless?
China has done all three, and it’s just getting started.
Five years after Microsoft abandoned an experimental underwater data…

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