According to CCTV News,Today, the "submarine data cabin", the core equipment of the submarine data center weighing 1,300 tons, will be installed in Lingshui, Hainan.After successful installation and commissioning, the first phase of the world's first commercial undersea data center project will be completed. As the "base" of Internet services, data centers are mainly used for storage, computing and information processing.
The installation of the world's largest undersea data cabin can not only store data, but also serve as an undersea "supercomputer".It is equivalent to 60,000 traditional computers working online at the same time, and can process more than 4 million high-definition photos in 30 seconds.
According to the project leader, the commercial undersea data center uses gravity heat pipe technology and uses seawater as a natural cold source, achieving an overall energy efficiency improvement of 40% to 60%.
The world's first commercial undersea data center project plans to deploy 100 cabins. After construction is completed, compared with traditional land-based data centers of the same size,It can save a total of 122 million kilowatt hours of electricity, 68,000 square meters of construction land, and 105,000 tons of fresh water every year.
By placing the server in a data cabin on the seabed and using the ocean as a natural cold source, it has the advantages of saving electricity, not requiring fresh water, saving land resources, high security, high computing power, and rapid deployment.
Undersea data centers use seawater to achieve natural cooling throughout the year, reducing energy consumption. At the same time, they can also use liquid cooling technology to increase server density and increase computing power.
It is also far away from human activity areas, providing a stable environment for server work, and achieving a dust-free and oxygen-free environment to further protect server electronics.Reduce the occurrence of failures and the design life reaches 25 years.