China’s experiment with submerging digital infrastructure beneath the ocean has now moved from theory to commercial reality. The Lin-gang Special Area in Shanghai has become home to what the country ...

China already has two large underwater data centers. The first, off the coast of Hainan, launched in 2022 and is now in full commercial use. A second, $226 million project off Shanghai recently went ...

Chinese company Highlander is building a server pod near Shanghai, where it will be submerged underwater to reduce the power consumption used by the facility for cooling. According to the South China ...

Off the coast of Shanghai, a revolutionary structure is forming beneath the waves: the world’s first wind-powered, commercial-scale underwater data center (UDC). Basically, submerging servers in ...

In hopes of discovering a more efficient way to store data, Microsoft has turned to the sea — specifically, it’s looking to house data centers in the world’s oceans as part of an initiative called ...

This week, Chinese firm HiCloud broke the mold by launching the first phase of the 24 megawatt facility off the coast of Shanghai, claiming a world first. According to New Atlas, 95 percent of the ...

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The future of underwater data centres is unknown, but one thing is for certain: the modern world as we know it relies on the ...