China’s subsea centre could power 7,000 DeepSeek conversations a second: report
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China’s subsea data centre could power 7,000 DeepSeek conversations a second: report
Computing power in underwater computing cluster off Hainan will be used in AI training, game production and marine research: state media.Holly Chik (South China Morning Post)
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •The rate they are in increasing energy demand might have the planet boiling within 10 years.
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •You’ll have to watch carefully the number to look at is total energy consumption.
Feel free to explain why people’s energy bills and my energy demand from data centers slated grow exponentially
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •Ocean
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in reply to Ocean • • •Andrii Zvorygin
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in reply to Andrii Zvorygin • • •That's just saying that China is one of the most populous countries in the world that also happens to be a global manufacturing hub. China still uses fossil fuels, but I think it's fair to call it an electrostate at this point.
- China’s carbon emissions have been in a structural decline since 2023 theguardian.com/business/2023/…
- Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023 carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean…
- China installed more solar in 2025 than rest of the world combined electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025…
- China’s solar capa
... Show more...That's just saying that China is one of the most populous countries in the world that also happens to be a global manufacturing hub. China still uses fossil fuels, but I think it's fair to call it an electrostate at this point.
Finally, it's also worth noting that China has a concrete plan for becoming carbon neutral, which it's already ahead of
Visualizing China’s Energy Transition in 5 Charts
Bruno Venditti (Visual Capitalist)3x3
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in reply to 3x3 • • •The fact of the matter is that air is an incredibly inefficient thermal conductor so data centers have to burn a massive amount of extra electricity just to run powerful fans and chillers to force that heat away. That extra energy consumption means an air cooled facility is responsible for generating significantly more total heat for the planet than a liquid cooled one.
When you put servers in the ocean you utilize the natural thermal conductivity of water which is about 24 times higher than air and allows you to strip out the active cooling infrastructure entirely. You end up with a system that puts far less total energy into the environment because you aren't wasting power fighting thermodynamics. Even though the ocean holds that heat longer the volume of water is so vast that the local temperature impact dissipates to nothing within a few meters of the vessel.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •queermunist she/her
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •I feel like dumping "waste" heat is the same as burning off "waste" gas from pumping oil.
It's not really just a waste byproduct, there just isn't a profitable way to utilize it. That heat could be used, but we just dump it into the ocean or the atmosphere because it's cheaper than building municipal heating or recycling it for industrial uses.
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in reply to queermunist she/her • • •China's first commercial nuclear district heating scheme expands
World Nuclear News