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The Chinese government want to build four new clusters in the country's northern and western regions.

Two very different recently announced initiatives are hoping to make some progress with the vexed question of managing data centre power use and emissions.

(Photo by panumas nikhomkhai from Pexels) China has decided to experiment with constructing an undersea data center in a bid to significantly cut cooling costs. As Reuters reports, the design of the data center has been finalized and a location selected off the coast of the southern island province of Hainan. The project is a collaboration between the local Hainan government, maritime tech company Highlander, and ISP Beijing Sinnet, but it remains unclear who is ultimately funding what is thought to be a very expensive project. The submerged data center will be tiny compared to those on land...

Data Center Operators Look To The Sea For Better Performance, Lower Carbon Microsoft's Project Natick Notorious for their massive energy requirements, data center operators began to seek alternate methods of powering the structures more than a decade ago. While companies like Google and Microsoft have been investigating the efficacy of water-powered data centers for some time, the concept didn’t come to fruition until the recent launch of a seven-megawatt data center created by Nautilus Data Technologies. Developed to minimize the cost of cooling se...

Ping along: What makes Microsoft's data centres tick Alvin R. Cabral/Dubai Filed on April 30, 2021 The Northern Isles data centre being retrieved from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, with a coat of algae, barnacles and sea anemones growing on it during its two-year deployment. One of the key aspects of Microsoft’s highly-secure, intricately-designed data centres is its contribution to the company’s sustainability goals, an aim of which is to become carbon-negative by 2030. Engineers inspecting the inside of a two-phase immersion cooling tank at a Microsoft data centr...