Google's Hamina Data Center

Find out about Google's newest data center currently under construction in Hamina, Finland. The new data center will feature an innovative sea water cooling system.

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[Chipicao999]

1:12 Blue paint helps you jump higher, orange paint makes you run faster.

[SiliconeSlave]

Very impressive. Go one step further and generate electricity from that heated water, or heat local homes or businesses. Seems a pity to waste that heat.

[Chumppi]

Cold water? They're getting just water. Cooling the servers with that. It is heated up by the temperature so it's mixed in with fresh water, same water from the ocean to cool it down for minimal impact on the environment.

[nitrobasez]

In Finland already utilized waste heat of data centers to heat buildings. Maybe not in Hamina but Google plans new data center to Helsinki, where Academica already runs it's data center boosting heat to Helsinki's district heating system.

[WraithF1N]

I live in Hamina and I must say that there is no poison or anything coming off from Google's Hamina Data Center.

[nbyte]

Earthquakes..

[frafri]

anybody interested in building a data center in Lebu, Chile.

There are a few projects around but none like this. and it can be done in Chile. cause the land is next to the sea!!

[Paul Reinhardt]

next target is the north pole: to cut expenses.

[wobblefluff]

Yeah, just portal all the heat to the moon. Solved.

[Michael Hart]

Google's servers are just commodity/hardware with efficient PSUs in custom casing, bulked together in large server holding units. It's nothing to write home about.

[Michael Hart]

It's unlikely that the water is hot enough to generate anything reasonably useful. It's important to remember that these are the best and brightest minds in the world designing Google's datacenters, not amateurs.

[Unimatrix36]

I was expecting to see a data center, but they only talked about the cooling, witch they do in most data center videos.

It's all about the cooling, not the servers. ;)