Comments on: Google Data Center in Finland to be 100% Cooled with Ocean Water {VIDEO}

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:15:00 +0000

good point

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:23:00 +0000

Point taken Unfortunately, the heat is still there, still added to the system. Hence my original comment. On a planetary scale, these are tiny increments. But we’ve already seen how quickly such tiny increments add up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:15:00 +0000

not sure what you mean by “the link leading to this issue is incorrect” but thanks for all the extra info — interesting!

By: Taisto Leinonen

Taisto Leinonen — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:39:00 +0000

Firstly, the link leading to this issue is incorrect. The Google server site is in Hamina, a smaller city about 200 km to the east from Helsinki.
Secondly, the Baltic Sea at its bottom is steadily at the temperature of about +8 oC Centigrade (summer) to +4 oC (winter).
In the winter from December to March the sea is entirely frozen, last winter even so thickly that icebreakers had hard times to keep ships going.
So, pumping heat from a server plant has no effect whatsoever to the temperature of the Baltic Sea.
(I should know, I was shivering in wind at -10 oC Centigrade 5 AM on a December night in 1959 after skiing 10 km to a remote island south of Hamina with 30 kg of telephone wire coils on my back and a rucksack on my chest. Why, just a standard drill in the Finnish Army. Age 18 yrs and now still kicking.)

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Mon, 30 May 2011 07:20:38 +0000

[…] shared a video on Google’s Helsinki, Finland data center that is cooled 100% with sea water last week. To follow up, here’s a series of short videos […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:57:00 +0000

I agree with you on some of the general points, Mac. But, as a note, they
cool the water back to a normal temperature before re-releasing it into the
sea.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:13:00 +0000

This is neither “Green” nor sustainable, folks. The oceans are already warming; this strategy will hasten the process. The place for Green creativity is not on the remediation side. It’s on the demand side. Show me a data center that cuts the *need for cooling.