Most Data Lives in the Cloud. What if it Lived Under the Sea?
were sunk 35 meters deep off the Orkney Islands in Scotland.Microsoft is not the only company experimenting with moving data underwater. Subsea Cloud is another American company doing so. China’s Shenzhen HiCloud Data Center Technology Co Ltd has deployed centers in tropical waters off the coast of Hainan Island.Why move data centers under the waves?Underwater data centers promise several advantages over their land-locked cousins.1) Energy efficiency - The primary benefit is a significant cut in electricity consumption. According to the International Energy Agency, data centers consume around 1&ndash
WW2 Shipwreck Found 81 Years After Tragic Sinking
the country's history.Marles said the SS Montevideo Maru, an unmarked prisoner of war transport vessel missing since being sunk off the Philippines' coast in July 1942, had been discovered northwest of Luzon island.The ship was torpedoed en route from what is now Papua New Guinea to China's Hainan by a U.S. submarine, unaware of the POWs onboard. It is considered Australia's worst maritime disaster.The long-awaited find comes ahead of April 25 commemorations for Anzac Day, a major day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand for their troops killed in all military conflicts."This
China's Guangdong to Move Data Centers Undersea to Cut Power Use
"high energy consuming data centers" to underwater locations, the five-year marine economy development plan said.The provincial government will lend support for related technological breakthroughs, it added.The plan comes on the heels of efforts by the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, which has commenced work on the world's first undersea commercial data center aiming to complete it in five years.In 2018, Microsoft lowered a non-commercial data center the size of a truck about 35 meters (117 feet) into the sea off Britain. The miniature data center was retrieved last year
OceanAlpha SL40 USV Inspects Narrow Pits on Dam Bedrock
Inspection personnel remote controls a 1.5-meter unmanned surface vehicle carrying a compact multibeam echosounder system to inspect deep pits in front of a dam in Hainan Province, China. Located in the middle reaches of the Changhua River in Hainan Province, the Daguang Hydropower Project, opened in 1994, provides integrated services such as power generation, irrigation, and water supply to millions of residents in the surrounding area.Affected by years of operational activities of the reservoir, as well as subsidence and damage caused by natural geological changes, many deep pits have appeared
Subsea 7 to Install Risers at Lingshui 17-2
will commence immediately at Subsea 7’s offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with offshore operations taking place in the first half of 2021, the company said.The Lingshui 17-2 field is located in the east Lingshui Sag area of Qiongdongnan Basin, approximately 150 kilometers offshore Sanya, Hainan province. Water depth ranges from 1,450 meters to 1,560 meters.CNOOC is the operator of Lingshui 17-2 and has 100% interest. First gas production is expected in 2021
CNOOC Developing New Deep Sea Gas Block in South China Sea
South China Sea, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.The Lingshui 17-2 gas field is the first deep sea gas block fully operated by a Chinese company, Xinhua said citing CNOOC officials.The deep sea project, which was discovered in 2014, is 150 km (94 miles) south of China's southern Hainan island, with an average operational depth of 1,500 metres, according to a Reuters report from that year.CNOOC is ready to start building a subsea level platform used for drilling, Xinhua said.(Reporting by Meng Meng and Aizhu Chen; Editing by Tom Hogue
SMD to Supply Work Class ROV to China
to Chinese power specialist China Southern Power Extra High Voltage Power Transmission Company (EHV, CSG), a subsidiary of the state-owned China Southern Power Grid (CSG). The ROV will be used for inspection of the 31km physical power cable connections in the Qiongzhou Strait between Hainan Island and mainland China. The Qiongzhou strait often experiences high currents so it was essential that CSG chose a compact and powerful ROV to cope with the harsh conditions. The Atom system is SMD’s lightest work class ROV suitable for offshore power applications, survey and light
China Optimistic of Finding Gas off Vietnam
;The place where the rig is drilling at the moment is likely to be a gas field. China conducted three-dimensional geological surveys before moving the rig there," said Wu Shicun, president of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, a Chinese government think-tank on the southern island of Hainan. "China is pretty confident ... otherwise they wouldn't start drilling," added Wu, a leading expert on China's ambitions in the South China Sea. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the dominant oil and gas producer in China, owns the block being drilled but has given it no
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