Even MS wants to drown MS.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
Two of the prime take-aways for me:
- Even MS now tacitly acknowledges that the right & proper thing to do is to drown MS.
- "more and more of our data is stored in the cloud" ... but apparently now also in oceans, duckponds, goldfish bowls, dry vodka martinis...
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere.
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@Steffie Clownfish Computing ?
Personally I think it's all a bubble economy.
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@Pathduck Heehee, very noice work there PD!
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Fish want own clouds too
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@Gwen-Dragon Oh no, now you've made me feel blue...
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On the one hand it is somehow logical to avoid high cooling costs, but underwater maintenance is virtually impossible. Server down "Wait a moment, please, try again in few weeks"
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I'm glad they picked Scotland as a testing ground. I'd quite like them to continue. Coming out of another financial crisis might be the perfect time to pivot to a green energy industry, and Scotland already has a few bases building on this.
It's good to see someone taking an interest in home-grown technology (even if it is one of the worlds tech oligopolies), because our government sure as heck isn't.
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@LonM You just gotta get out of the UK asap, then Scotland has a chance.
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@Steffie There is no upside-down walking around. The world is a disc being carried by a giant space turtle, as we all know.
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It may be that in the future, replacing the silicon in the chips with diamonds or silicon carbid, refrigeration will be irrelevant. These materials withstand temperatures of more than 700ยบC, compared to just over 140ยบC to fry a current chip.
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@luetage Once again the poor pachyderms get no love. That rotten turtle wouldn't be half so lauded sans-elephantubbles.
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@Steffie said in Even MS wants to drown MS.:
Maybe @LonM might like to learn how to walk around upside down?
Given the world's current propensity to keep heating up (for reasons unbeknownst to us allโธฎ) it seems like no matter where I go I'll end up burning. Might as well keep the head start I have here in not-so-cold-and-wet-anymore Scotland.
Also, I'm not hardy enough to face all of your deadly fauna ๐ฆ
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@luetage , yes, of course
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@LonM Oh now you're just being so silly -- here's why.
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Hot air rises, ergo, it's gonna get chilly down here whilst you peeps roast up there. Honestly i can't abide those who don't grasp basic thermodynamics!
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Our fauna is Mostly Harmless, so Don't Panic.
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@Steffie said in Even MS wants to drown MS.:
- Hot air rises, ergo, it's gonna get chilly down here whilst you peeps roast up there. Honestly i can't abide those who don't grasp basic thermodynamics!
But we're in space!! Which way is up?
- Our fauna is Mostly Harmless, so Don't Panic.
Mostly - as in slightly fatal??
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Ever wonder what happens when a water-powered computer dumps core?
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@Gwen-Dragon Yes, it's part of the Crunchly saga: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/lexicon.html
It's pretty good in an old-school hacker kind of way
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Another article on it.
To my immense frustration however, neither article has satisfied my curiosity about:
- Sans-human intervention during the test period, how did they reset all the BSoD?
- OK fine they had all these petaflops happening on the seabed, but how did they connect their 56.6 kbps dialup modem to it to actually access any of the data?
- Did the inert gas atmosphere effectively block the forced Edge updates?