Probably a stupid question here,
What is the advantage of using salty sea water lets say over for example
mineral oil? I have seen on you tube these guys showing that a pc will
still run in a fish tank and all components submerged in mineral oil?
Yes it will be messier to change components but would the use of mineral
oil be more efficient?
On 2018-11-04 14:10, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:27:05 +0000, you wrote:
Im not sure theres a huge population of Xcloud-Xbox gamers in
Orkney. There's not much daylight this time of year, of course, so
maybe that's what those Orcadians are up to.
Likely just a convenient place for a second test unit.
In a way this is just an extension of the idea/product Sun came up wth
where they put a datacentre in a shipping container with the idea that
you could quickly get the datacentre where it was needed.
While I wouldn't say this won't fail, I think there is a lot of
attraction to the concept given not just the time lag do build a
traditional data centre (mentioned in the article), but even the cost
of real estate in many/most places people live these days. Do you,
for one example, want to pay NYC rents or just throw a bunch of pods
in the Hudson?
I guess once you accept the idea that we no longer maintain these
datacentres in the traditional way - we now just let hardware fail in
place and ignore it until it's time to replace all the hardware -
moving to smaller sealed units doesn't seem to strange.
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