Eco Factor: A Data Center that uses wave energy to fulfill all its energy and cooling needs.
It seems that people are realizing the power that the ocean holds in its waves with concepts like Wave Powered Gymnasium coming up. Google seems to have unearthed another gold mine by visualizing a data center that floats on the sea. Google apparently filed a patent in the US Patent and Trademark Office in early February this year. The document shows Google’s plan to build giant floating data centers on waves. The new data centers would be completely powered by wave energy and a freshwater-seawater cooling system would be used for cooling the peripherals.
A data center of one square kilometer area would produce 30 MW of electricity and Google says that this would be sufficient to run the data center. This not only cuts down on fossil fuel use, but keeps the data centers close to customers and reduces transmission power.
The Dark Side:
Such database centers floating on waves worldwide could hamper and destroy that already fragile ocean ecosystem. The ocean ecosystem is already known to be very sensitive to even the minutest of changes, and this could possibly affect the balance.
Via: Cnet
