It takes 12 weeks to build and deploy a pod. For large deployments (100MW+), a gradual deployment schedule may be implemented.
There are a few reasons. One is heat Transfer: There is a much smaller surface area requirement for heat transfer within fluid as compared to air. Modular design is better in and of itself, but combined with immersion cooling, it is extremely efficient. Modular also means scalable, rapid, agile, and less expensive than the traditional data centers we are building today.
We can build anywhere in the world. We can deploy anywhere there is water.
We build from sustainable materials that can be recycled and that are proven to be suitable for the subsea environment – both in terms of integrity and marine life. We use less carbon intensive steel, utilize environmentally friendly fluids and recycled materials where possible.
We place servers and sensors in each pod that enable computational workloads and the ability to monitor the environment.
Our bill of materials count is substantially lower than that of a traditional data center. The complexities of building and extending cables on land do not exist in the subsea environment further reducing cost.
There are times where speed and agility are the only necessities/requirements and other times whereby the temporary, transitional ability of a pod is what makes it attractive.Shipping, reassembling and testing military or survey data centers can result in down times of weeks. Subsea Cloud's solution is fully self contained and can be set up within hours of arrival.
A pod can be deployed and up and running on the seafloor anywhere between 2h - 6h upon arriving at its location.
In some deployments we do – typically when deploying in a port or very shallow water. The bulk of our deployments are accomplished with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).
We can install in any body of water, but we tend to install in waters where there is existing power and telecommunications infrastructure.
It depends on the servers housed within. However, each pod can accommodate between 0.5MW and 1.5MW.
There are deep-sea cables – transoceanic fiber optic cables that are responsible for connecting much of the world’s communication via the internet, carrying as much as 99 percent of total global internet and signal traffic.There are unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and remote operated vehicles (ROVs).Petroleum companies place infrastructure such as pipelines, wellheads, power units, drilling and production equipment, refining and chemical equipment, and more on the seafloor.
You can schedule periodic maintenance, including server replacement, for any interval you deem necessary. It takes between 4 -16 hours to get to site, pull up the required pod(s) and replace the servers in any case.
It costs significantly less. Through our strong partnerships we have made maintaining and operating our data centers far more economical. Our approach improves the performance and reliability of servers because our fluid is less corrosive than oxygen. This results in a reduction in failures.
Subsea data centers typically do require less maintenance. These reliability advances include a reduction in corrosion and electrochemical migration, lessening of environmental contamination like dust, debris, particulates and reduced thermal shock. Furthermore, due to the increased heat capacity of fluids, there is a significant increase in compute performance. There is also the added benefit of having no humans interact with the servers – either performing a task erroneously or bumping into cabling, etc.Server maintenance is often done remotely. If physical maintenance is needed, we provide the client/cloud provider a window.
The lifespan of the actual data center pods is around 20 years. However, in line with a typical server lifespan, each pod would likely live on the seafloor for 3-5 years then be retrieved. Upon retrieval, new servers would be placed within and it would be redeployed.
Systems often can be managed remotely. Contingencies are built in for different clients and different use cases.
This is entirely possible. We just need to know.
We use free, passive cooling which means there is no need for harmful greenhouse-gas refrigerants, intrusive cooling towers or computer room air handlers. This means we produce no wastewater and therefore have no impact on water quality, fish or wildlife. Our thermal footprint is low due to the heat carrying capacity of liquids. We are always open to working with environmental groups to both garner their confidence and prove our benefits to the environment and planet.
We are. We completely eliminate electrically driven cooling which is a huge win for the environment. Each pod we put into the water can stop as much as 750 tons of carbon from being deployed, per pod, per year.We use free, passive cooling which means there is no need for harmful greenhouse-gas refrigerants, intrusive cooling towers or computer room air handlers.
Data centers use more than Britain's total electricity consumption. At 3% of the global electricity supply data centers have the same carbon footprint as the aviation industry. Unlike the aviation industry, the trajectory of data center deployment and consumption is upwards.To limit global warming to 2015 Paris Accord levels, the world’s net emissions of greenhouse gases need to drop to zero by 2050. Thereafter, there will still be work to do to sustain net-negative emissions through the second half of the century. It will take many decades to fully decarbonize some sectors, likely longer than is currently anticipated. However, instead of waiting decades to steer the data center industry in the right direction, we should do it now.Data-centric companies, and data centers in particular, contribute heavily to global CO2 emissions. As noted already, balancing and then reversing historical emissions will require billions of tons of net negative emissions up to and after 2050.Climate change doesn’t affect everyone to the same degree. Within America and around the world, the poorest people are often most drastically impacted and it shows up in the following places, as examples:• Money pays for air conditioning • Money pays for CO2 offsets and care needs• Higher incomes allow people to live in safe places, away from swelling rivers and tinder-dry wooded areas • Privilege fills grocery carts, even as food prices soar • Wealthier federal budgets can compensate their citizens when climate change harms livelihoods• Impoverished families are often the least to blame for man-made climate change, yet they typically bear the worst of the impactFurthermore, climate change is very likely going to amplify the already existing divide between the rich and poor. As global temperatures and sea levels rise, as the oceans acidify and precipitation patterns get rearranged, people living in poverty are the most severely impacted. Since climate change affects everything from where a person can live to their access to health care, millions of people could be plunged further into poverty as environmental conditions worsen. In this context, scaling the deployment of carbon reducing technologies and activities is central to keeping global warming at safe levels over the long term, which affects the impoverished in a beneficial way.We, ultimately, want to do our part in business to help repair the climate issue. We reduce the typical CO2 emitted by a traditional data center by 40%. Each pod we deploy saves between 350-750t of carbon from being deployed each year. We use no water and we have an extremely low thermal footprint. We are working with environmental agencies and activists to garner their confidence and support.
We do not use water. Our design eliminates the need for water. This is especially important given the increasing scarcity of drinking water worldwide caused by agriculture, urbanization, and climate change. These human-caused drivers contribute to social unrest and human cost as inequalities around water access deepen. Traditional data centers use millions of gallons of water per day, 57% of which is estimated to be potable. Our subsea fluid-filled pods eliminate this water use.
There is no air in the pods, so fire risk is nil.
Also known as liquid submersion cooling, immersion cooling is the practice of submerging full servers in a thermally conductive liquid (dielectric coolant). Liquid cooling is far more efficient than air cooling due to thermal conductivities. Compared to air, water has a higher heat-carrying capacity. How high? about 3500 times as high.We submerge our servers in a non-conductive fluid, too. Technically speaking, we produce immersion centers. However, we don’t require pumps to remove the heat – our design passively disperses heat. In other words, we completely eliminate the need for electricity to be involved in the cooling process. We also solve for the following challenges:LandScarcityPower CostsLatencyCost to buildScalabilitySustainability
We have performed testing and are continuing on to commercial tests (as of 2022). Interested companies and individuals will be invited to visit our pod sites and view neutral data generated by servers in our pods. We also have deployments that are not commercial, but private.
Physical security is absolute. Special tooling is required to remove the pods from their base frames. A pod can not be opened when on seafloor. Pods can also be placed beyond the reach of divers and submarines.Cyber security?Cyber security remains the same as with traditional data centers.
Each pod is insured.
They are building double hull enclosures and still require electrically driven cooling to an extent. Their designs are more complex and based on submarine engineering, not subsea engineering. Our design is simpler, more versatile, cost-efficient and safer.
There is redundancy (N+1).
We can operate in shallow depths of 10ft down to deeper depths of 9500ft.
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