An underwater data center powered by offshore wind power

Abstract

The invention discloses an underwater data center arranged and powered by an offshore fan. The invention arranges the data center server in the seawater environment to realize the heat dissipation and cooling of the data center, and greatly reduces the initial investment of the cooling system of the data center and the power consumption of the air conditioning system during the operation period; The main and shore-based power grid is an auxiliary backup, making full use of offshore renewable energy, and greatly reducing the power supply of the data center; the underwater data center of the present invention relies on the existing offshore wind turbine pile foundation structure in layout.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an underwater data center, belonging to the field of underwater structures and data centers, in particular to an underwater data center relying on offshore wind power pile foundation installation and arrangement, relying on offshore wind turbines for power supply and relying on seawater cold sources for cooling. Background technique [0002] With the rapid development of information technology in the world, human beings have stepped into the cloud era rapidly, the demand for data storage and computing resources is increasing, the scale of data centers is also increasing, and its energy consumption is also increasing at an alarming rate. increase rapidly. In the United States, the energy consumption of data centers accounts for 2% of the total power grid consumption. In 2016, the energy consumption of data centers in my country has also increased to 1.87% of the electricity consumption of the whole society, and continues to grow...

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Problems solved by technology

Arranging the data center on a ship or directly under the water achieves the purpose of using seawater as a cold source, but the huge power load demand of the data center requires the system to have the ability to supply high-power power at sea, and the supporting structures configured separately for the data center such as High cost of ships or underwater structures

[0004] Offshore wind power is a mature renewable energy, but the cost and loss of long-distance offshore transmission are relatively large, the instability of wind power has a greater impact on the power grid, and the abandonment rate of wind power in practical applications is also high.

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