China is persevering with underwater datacenters - a deployment off the coast near Shanghai is expected to save on the energy costs of cooling compute infrastructure thanks to ocean currents.

Beijing-based Highlander Digital Technology is planning to submerge its latest seaborne bit barn (bit barnacle?) pods later this month, following an earlier trial deployment off the island of Hainan.

According to reports, the latest facility will serve clients such as China Telecom and a state-owned AI computing company, and is part of a broader push by the Chinese government for datacenter operators to lower their carbon footprint.

"Underwater operations have inherent advantages," Highlander vice president Yang Ye told the South China Morning Post . This includes heat being dissipated by ocean cur

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