China switches on the first wind-powered underwater data center
Off Shanghai, 10 metres underwater, a 24 MW facility cooled by seawater and powered by offshore wind.
China has brought online the first underwater data center powered by offshore wind. The facility sits more than 10 kilometres off the coast of Shanghai, 10 metres below the sea, with a capacity of 24 megawatts.
It draws electricity from an offshore wind farm near Lingang and uses seawater to cool the servers, cutting consumption by more than a fifth compared with a traditional data center while limiting fresh-water use.
The project is worth $236 million and is one of the first large-scale attempts to combine intensive computing and renewables directly at sea.
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