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Samsung is building floating data centers on ships, and it's already got regulatory approval (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I am pretty sure you are letting your dislike of data centers cloud your judgement of how large their heat related impact can be.

Relative to the vastness of the oceans a data center is so negligible that I feel you don't understand the size of the ocean at all.

They would have to build a million data centers, yes, a million (or perhaps even millions, plural) , to have any heat impact which is economically and resource related impossible. For reference, all data centers worldwide on land now count 11k.

Don't let your personal dislike of something cloud your ability for rational analysis.