Couldn't you get the cooling of the ocean from just pumping water through pipes in the ocean and then onto land? And if nitrogen was a big benefit, couldn't you do that on land too?
Not knocking the experiment, it seems very interesting / worth seeing what happens.
Bluestein•3h ago
I am sure this has got to have been tried before ...
(Then again, pumping the water would consume some energy ...)
more_corn•2h ago
Yeah Google built a data center in an old paper mill in Norway. They use ocean water to cool the heat exchangers. It’s important not to let the salt water in. Things get a lot more difficult then.
duxup•1h ago
I suspect it is similar underwater ;)
bawana•1h ago
I wonder if they can use the same cooling tower for their nuclear plant and their data center? Colocating fission reactors and datacenters might be a way to get some use out of all those empty malls resulting from amazonification.
dublin•54m ago
Hacker News is getting really useless. I thought I'd heard this some time ago, and yep, clicking through,this is indeed "news" that is OVER A YEAR OLD.
Are we just completely ignoring the "News" part of Hacker News now?
stevage•46m ago
Good that this didn't become a trend. Oceans warming is one of the huge threats of climate change, we really don't need to help it.
2four2•36m ago
A data center is a near-zero contribution to ocean warming.
stevage•14m ago
You know if you add enough small things together, they become a big thing, right?
Mars008•34m ago
Add to that it was done in the North where ocean's cooling is needed for Golf stream to keep circulating.
EugeneG•5m ago
Don’t ever pee in the ocean … to avoid accelerating global warming
duxup•3h ago
Not knocking the experiment, it seems very interesting / worth seeing what happens.
Bluestein•3h ago
(Then again, pumping the water would consume some energy ...)
more_corn•2h ago
duxup•1h ago