Yeah. I once saw in a documentary, if i remember correctly, how marine life (particularly sharks) keep on gathering in the posts of oil rigs. It's difficult to believe that these underwater data centers would have only a "minimal impact".
As a worker at a data center, a very large one, I don't think that this would work very well. I can not begin to imagine what a single 30MW server floor shell running full time in roughly 300k sqft would do to the environment. We have already seen the devastating effects of ocean temperatures rising marginally, I don't even want to begin to imagine what damage a large number of dcs directly heating the ocean would cause.
Yes, let's begin a campaign of warming the oceans to match the atmosphere. Uh oh, too late, the ocean boiled away and the atmospheric pressure crushes everything.
I imagine if you built this with some kind of "elevator" mechanism (probably thick cables that can unwind to let the server room's buoyancy lift it up) it would also allow it to be periodically serviced much more easily, so you're not trying to sell customers access to 10 year old server technologies (or older, if you didn't go latest-and-greatest on sink day) when the new hotness is on offer from competing companies!
While a good idea on paper, I have a feeling that it would end up causing a lot of issues. A few servers wouldn't be a problem, but if history is anything to go by...less then reputable companies tend to ruin good things in the name of saving a few bucks. One obvious issue that can come about would be saturating an area with massive heat generating server farms. While I doubt it would cause any global problems, to much heat in a single area would assuredly cause a rise in temperature. Another issue would be pollution. Once they find cheaper (aka, worse materials to use) I doubt it will be worth salvaging these and removing them from the ocean once they are no longer useful. And everyone knows if it isn't worth disposing of properly it will just sit their and waste away because some companies won't bother spending the money to deal with it.
It is also not good for maintanance. Having a datacenter close to the sea, water cooled and a big radiator in the sea would be better, since access to the datacenter for humans would be practical and a radiator that sits even in water that is 30C is still fine if the radiator is big enough. And if it isnt, you jsut need a smaller auxiliary one that uses little electricity.
I was thinking that the warmer, less dense water would rise to the top, increasing ocean oxygen circulation - which is a good thing, especially as ocean oxygen circulation is actually slowing down right now.
Governments could solve that issue by requiring a cleanup tax where the company would have to pay extra for putting their servers in the ocean, but after they leave it there, the government would take care of taking them out and recycling. Kinda like some countries deal with plastics by introducing a recycling tax on plastic packaging.
@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673sorry if i sound ignorant but how would warmer water rising increase oxygen circulation? doesnt warmer water hold less oxygen leading to reducing oxygen mixing between depths and consequently raising the oxygen consumption by organisms.
Access security is also a problem. One or two (linear) shaped charges attached to such a container by a diver or robot and you can most likely say goodbye to all the data stored there.
right, but getting to them is a little more difficult, these usually arent buried at 30meters or less, typical diving distance. so you basically will need a frogman suit to get there. not impossible, but a lot of work and expense for not much gain same for ROV's. they are expensive. and why would you use that expense for basically very little gain?
@@robertlinke2666 Well the server mentioned in this video is 117ft deep and I could dive down to it with absolute confidence. Obviously, if the server was sunk to a depth beyond recreational diving limits then it would be more secure, but you would likely have to deal with depths greater than 100m before you see satisfactory security results.
@hobog Every computer put in this type of location will be extremely redundant. There are thousands of computers that can fill in if 1 goes down. So anything that fails will just get turned off. The value of each individual computer is not enough to bother fixing.
That’s exactly what Google wants to do, and it makes perfect sense to put servers underwater!!! Think about it. If you can have an offshore solar, wind, and wave farm, you can maximize usefulness with a server farm, algae/kelp/seaweed, fish farming, plus a server farm for hosting! On top of storing all that power in the form of hydrogen or batteries (transportable renewable energy) That’s not even including coral farming or scuba dives/tourism!
If the thermal emissions are high enough, it could totally ruin the adjacent ecosystem. Dumping cooling water (secondary and tertiary loop) into the ocean near nuclear powerplants has killed coral reefs. Not generating so much thermal waste should be the bigger focus.
Not much can be done about thermal waste when we're talking about servers in data centers. The only hope we can have is that the oceans aren't treated as free real estate by tech companies. There needs to be a cut-off point to how many underwater servers are allowed, or else we'll end up boiling our oceans and generating unnatural amounts of clouds that heavily disrupt our naturally occurring weather systems.
I guess in theory, the water would boil enough to (infinitesimally) lower the sea level and produce more clouds helping to protect the planet fro global warming, but they would need to be on the surface. At that point to combat climate change would have large ships and cruises have their boilers and engines in the water...
Ah I am glad youre a professional and educating us with this well placed knowledge -_- No matter what you do there will always be that one person that cant be pleased.
This has to be one of the hardest channels to keep going but content like this shows you can still pull it off. Every now and then even I know what you're talking about but at times I do not and I enjoy learning. Like an old person. I'm not old but other people might think I am. Some people are stupid.
Honestly, considering the amount of heat that is generated in data centers around the world, it seems like an absolute waste to not use this heat for example in a district heating system
District heating requires a lot of highly concentrated heat. The Data Centers do not provide that heat and the heat they provide is very disperse. We did the numbers at out engineering firm!
Actually, that's already happening in some parts of the world on a small scale - including right here in Metro Vancouver. It's a much better method than dumping heat into the ocean IMO.
One thing about lower Temperatures: They even save on Energy on the Server. Only by 5% or so when you go from 70°C to 40°C but it is noticeable and as long as you have an endless heatdump you can increase the coolant flow to reduce the temps. Biggest Problem is that 10 years are optimistic, i would say 5 years would be the swap time. But it may even become a haven for fish: A Server underwater Farm would provide a no fishing zone with lot of warmer water for plankton etc. So lot of food. The Discruption of moving in and out a Server every 2-4 weeks won't be such a Problem. It's like the Offshore Windparks, a save haven for fish.
If Datacenter are used for heating water of cities that would be a tons of gaz and electricity not spend on this human need. It's a far more useful concept, and even more if that heated water is given free to the people (or at the same price of cold water).
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It was a bit disappointing that SUPREME COMMANDER didn’t have solar, wind, geothermal, and TiDAL generators like TOTAL ANNIHILATION did. As it was a pretty slick trick to build an underwater base with your commander. Especially with that underwater fusion reactor and Mass converters. I guess that’s what you get for making your game Gas Powered.
I mean this was a company that made their game single threaded (albeit with some sub threads) and 32bit (so it was mem-capped at 2 GB) when quad core processors were already a thing.
Besides heat dissipation there is another non-trivial advantage: free real-estate. And no rent, no 50ft concrete wall, no park spaces, no security guards, ...
Are MS getting their ideas from re-watching old episodes of _Metalocalypse_ now? "This isn't for people. It's a server for fish. ... We're going to put our new data centre in the heaviest, most brütal place on earth: the Marianas Trench."
I had heard about this; only thing that came to my mind was condensation on the inside but then seconds later you addressed that with mentioning they vacuum sealed the container and added Nitrogen in the void.
The great lakes would be a great place for this. Fresh water is colder at shallow waters and isn't conductive. The metal shipwrecks in the the great lakes are very well preserved.
True and it would make the lake water warmer so better for tourists. Not sure about the fish, but maybe with some control you could use this to increase biodiversity by adding tropical fish to non-tropical zones.
Its funny but very efficient that LTT has footage of Linus for almost every situation needed for almost every video roll / filler / graphic representation 😅
I'm not an engineer or ocean scientist, but if we do this on major scales, would there be risk for even more ocean temperature rise? I know water absorbs a lot of heat before raising temperature, but for a planet already warming slowly, is it still worth it for more than an occasional thing? Some server facilities are massive and generate tons of heat. Curious to see if it would effect ocean temperatures even a fraction of a degree and what the downstream effects would be of mass deployment.
My calculations may be wrong but with no energy loss and all of our todays electricity production converted into the heat it would take us smth like 53 million years to heat the ocean by 1°C. Not much of an issue
So, as long as those servers ran any simulation, for a brief moment in time if one of those algae said "Bro, I think we live on a simulation", they were technically correct.
some of the companies i worked with had a 3 year renewal cycle. servers were replaced every 3 years.. i was constantly building new servers with obviously better specs and decommisioning and removing the older servers. how are they going to keep the servers for 10 years? needs change over time ....
They likely won't do any. If the 1/8th failure rate is accurate, they would just add enough redundant systems. This might even reduce the overall price because low maintenance and property fees.
it's gonna be impossible to do underwater maintenance considering the size of those tubes,when you need a fully separated airtight airlocks and responsible system for it, most likely they will be brought back out for critical maintenance
Yes in a situation like that if they couldn’t fix the problem remotely they would just power off that server. It would be cheaper to just put a bunch more servers in the ocean than it would be to try and bring it up to replace 1 motherboard.
This is a solution looking for a problem. If you want easy access to cooling water and easy access for maintenance, just put it on a coast pier or legged rig and pump up cold water.
1: how this increased submersed water energy release (heat) could change the behavior of sea life forms? 2: how increaded EMI could change the behavior of sea life forms? 3: how far lawyers can go to offload the "tsunami event" from the Hosting company? Asking for a friend...
Instructions unclear, computer now not responding at the bottom of the pacific ocean.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Put it in rice
I thought you need the specific ocean.
Me; when I throw my newly build pc in Bermuda triangle before watching this ☠️
3:20 Shark letting their intrusive thoughts win
How much do you think Microsoft would pay to keep Linus out out the ocean anywhere near one their servers?
A 7 dropped payments of $69.99
Their servers run Linux though... What are you on?
@@FryuniGamer Microsoft uses Linux.
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Best techquickie in awhile. Really enjoyed this one
Brings a whole new meaning to the blue screen of death when you have to send a techy down there.
The Position requires good diving ability
2020: I am uploading my files to the cloud.
2030: I am uploading my files to the ocean.
Isn't it great how Linus' own company spares no effort in trying to roast him at every given opportunity?
Because he has less work to do and is laughing his way to the bank? ;)
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@@RetroMMA perhaps. I mean he's very aware of his problem and it helps him seem relatable and flawed and that money can't hurt.
@@SpidermanandJenydon't care. We need to keep creating hate towards Linus. #gamernexusforever
A thing to consider is that large undersea data centers could be environmental hotspots because they would be warmer there
Yeah. I once saw in a documentary, if i remember correctly, how marine life (particularly sharks) keep on gathering in the posts of oil rigs. It's difficult to believe that these underwater data centers would have only a "minimal impact".
@@lordsiomaithere are birds and food around the oil rigs. That's why sharks hang out there
ocean is like 2/3 of the planet, I think it will be fine.
@@jondonnelly3the ocean isn't one big equilibrium. It can be warmer in certain areas. What effect that would cause, I don't know.
As a worker at a data center, a very large one, I don't think that this would work very well. I can not begin to imagine what a single 30MW server floor shell running full time in roughly 300k sqft would do to the environment. We have already seen the devastating effects of ocean temperatures rising marginally, I don't even want to begin to imagine what damage a large number of dcs directly heating the ocean would cause.
Yes, let's begin a campaign of warming the oceans to match the atmosphere. Uh oh, too late, the ocean boiled away and the atmospheric pressure crushes everything.
I imagine if you built this with some kind of "elevator" mechanism (probably thick cables that can unwind to let the server room's buoyancy lift it up) it would also allow it to be periodically serviced much more easily, so you're not trying to sell customers access to 10 year old server technologies (or older, if you didn't go latest-and-greatest on sink day) when the new hotness is on offer from competing companies!
While a good idea on paper, I have a feeling that it would end up causing a lot of issues. A few servers wouldn't be a problem, but if history is anything to go by...less then reputable companies tend to ruin good things in the name of saving a few bucks. One obvious issue that can come about would be saturating an area with massive heat generating server farms. While I doubt it would cause any global problems, to much heat in a single area would assuredly cause a rise in temperature. Another issue would be pollution. Once they find cheaper (aka, worse materials to use) I doubt it will be worth salvaging these and removing them from the ocean once they are no longer useful. And everyone knows if it isn't worth disposing of properly it will just sit their and waste away because some companies won't bother spending the money to deal with it.
It is also not good for maintanance. Having a datacenter close to the sea, water cooled and a big radiator in the sea would be better, since access to the datacenter for humans would be practical and a radiator that sits even in water that is 30C is still fine if the radiator is big enough. And if it isnt, you jsut need a smaller auxiliary one that uses little electricity.
I was thinking that the warmer, less dense water would rise to the top, increasing ocean oxygen circulation - which is a good thing, especially as ocean oxygen circulation is actually slowing down right now.
Governments could solve that issue by requiring a cleanup tax where the company would have to pay extra for putting their servers in the ocean, but after they leave it there, the government would take care of taking them out and recycling.
Kinda like some countries deal with plastics by introducing a recycling tax on plastic packaging.
@@hubertnnn this definitely has a history of working and not becoming "the cost of business"/s
@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673sorry if i sound ignorant but how would warmer water rising increase oxygen circulation? doesnt warmer water hold less oxygen leading to reducing oxygen mixing between depths and consequently raising the oxygen consumption by organisms.
Access security is also a problem. One or two (linear) shaped charges attached to such a container by a diver or robot and you can most likely say goodbye to all the data stored there.
right, but getting to them is a little more difficult, these usually arent buried at 30meters or less, typical diving distance.
so you basically will need a frogman suit to get there. not impossible, but a lot of work and expense for not much gain
same for ROV's. they are expensive. and why would you use that expense for basically very little gain?
@@robertlinke2666 Well the server mentioned in this video is 117ft deep and I could dive down to it with absolute confidence. Obviously, if the server was sunk to a depth beyond recreational diving limits then it would be more secure, but you would likely have to deal with depths greater than 100m before you see satisfactory security results.
You need only drag anchor over it.
Guess you haven't heard of depth charges yet...
Imagine having your data lost cause Microsoft can't put the server in rice after a leak
I know this is a joke but rice doesn't dry electronics. That's a common misconception.
Thank you for clarifying, Vicar.
Imagine trusting Microsoft with your data
its entirely your fault for having data stored onto somebody elses server
@@Dosenwerferimagine trusting any company that gives free service.
Off shore wind
Battery storage
Underwater data center
Starlink connection
Sounds like a very profitable combination
What happens when you need to replace old server blades?
@hobog Every computer put in this type of location will be extremely redundant. There are thousands of computers that can fill in if 1 goes down. So anything that fails will just get turned off. The value of each individual computer is not enough to bother fixing.
That’s exactly what Google wants to do, and it makes perfect sense to put servers underwater!!!
Think about it. If you can have an offshore solar, wind, and wave farm, you can maximize usefulness with a server farm, algae/kelp/seaweed, fish farming, plus a server farm for hosting! On top of storing all that power in the form of hydrogen or batteries (transportable renewable energy)
That’s not even including coral farming or scuba dives/tourism!
If the thermal emissions are high enough, it could totally ruin the adjacent ecosystem. Dumping cooling water (secondary and tertiary loop) into the ocean near nuclear powerplants has killed coral reefs. Not generating so much thermal waste should be the bigger focus.
Yeah, computers in space need that r&d for thermal efficiency bc there's no air, only radiation for cooling
Not much can be done about thermal waste when we're talking about servers in data centers. The only hope we can have is that the oceans aren't treated as free real estate by tech companies. There needs to be a cut-off point to how many underwater servers are allowed, or else we'll end up boiling our oceans and generating unnatural amounts of clouds that heavily disrupt our naturally occurring weather systems.
Linus in 2025: so my boathouse gaming PC is now in the lake, it's great.
Ahh yes, I am sure directly heating up the ocean with data centers couldn't possibly go wrong!
My thoughts exactly, temperature of the oceans are rising as is.
Well, instead of dumping the data center heat and the HVAC machinery heat, you would dump only the data center heat.
Or, to be more precise, you would dump less heat, because you would need less power to cool the data center.
I guess in theory, the water would boil enough to (infinitesimally) lower the sea level and produce more clouds helping to protect the planet fro global warming, but they would need to be on the surface. At that point to combat climate change would have large ships and cruises have their boilers and engines in the water...
Ah I am glad youre a professional and educating us with this well placed knowledge -_- No matter what you do there will always be that one person that cant be pleased.
One more way to heat up the oceans instead of converting wasted heat back into usable energy? Sign me up! 😂
4:45 AirBnB catching strays. That was a good one 🤣
I still want to do a "geothermal" water cooling loop in my basement someday
This has to be one of the hardest channels to keep going but content like this shows you can still pull it off. Every now and then even I know what you're talking about but at times I do not and I enjoy learning. Like an old person. I'm not old but other people might think I am. Some people are stupid.
Honestly, considering the amount of heat that is generated in data centers around the world, it seems like an absolute waste to not use this heat for example in a district heating system
District heating requires a lot of highly concentrated heat. The Data Centers do not provide that heat and the heat they provide is very disperse. We did the numbers at out engineering firm!
Actually, that's already happening in some parts of the world on a small scale - including right here in Metro Vancouver. It's a much better method than dumping heat into the ocean IMO.
I would think maybe something like keeping subway tunnels a bit warmer in the winter.
So aqua man was trying to make a phone call, picked up the wrong shell, and now his ears are pierced.
Humanity- Ocean temperatures are increasing.
Also Humanity- Lets use the oceans as heatsinks
One thing about lower Temperatures: They even save on Energy on the Server. Only by 5% or so when you go from 70°C to 40°C but it is noticeable and as long as you have an endless heatdump you can increase the coolant flow to reduce the temps. Biggest Problem is that 10 years are optimistic, i would say 5 years would be the swap time. But it may even become a haven for fish: A Server underwater Farm would provide a no fishing zone with lot of warmer water for plankton etc. So lot of food. The Discruption of moving in and out a Server every 2-4 weeks won't be such a Problem. It's like the Offshore Windparks, a save haven for fish.
And they called Linus crazy with his pool...
I love how the thech industry was like:
The oceans are warming! Let's make it faster!
4:45 "...and AirBnBs" - accurate depiction of current state of the AirBnB experience appears on screen.
Instructions unclear, my room is full of salty water and a whale screaming to me
I love my computer, I'm not throwing it in the ocean like a common car battery.
Agreed. Its neither safe nor legal, unlike car batteries
Scientists be like “why are the oceans warming up”
Title doesn't say "Would you kindly" or "Simon says", so I don't have to do it...
so much information in such a quick video. IMO one of the best videos from you guys
If Datacenter are used for heating water of cities that would be a tons of gaz and electricity not spend on this human need. It's a far more useful concept, and even more if that heated water is given free to the people (or at the same price of cold water).
0:55 I did not expect to see my tiny Uk hometown swimming pool on techquickie today. I learnt to swim in that pool. Can confirm, it is quite warm.
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Well, you could have said it needs to be waterproofed first. Now I have to watch YT from my phone!
You made the same mistake I did! 😜
This is how Rapture in Bioshock started
What a coincidence, I'm currently researching this for a school project.
Is your school underwater?
@@hobogHow'd you know?
It was a bit disappointing that SUPREME COMMANDER didn’t have solar, wind, geothermal, and TiDAL generators like TOTAL ANNIHILATION did. As it was a pretty slick trick to build an underwater base with your commander. Especially with that underwater fusion reactor and Mass converters. I guess that’s what you get for making your game Gas Powered.
I mean this was a company that made their game single threaded (albeit with some sub threads) and 32bit (so it was mem-capped at 2 GB) when quad core processors were already a thing.
Riley is great for all those “rapid fire” technical information
Ah yes, warm the oceans even more. Great idea
Ocean LAN the sequence of a CPU created from a ton of sand, soaking up the data of man
this is how you do subtle visual humor
This would be perfectly implemented in switzerland, where there are many lakes with good infrastructure around it.
increase the temperature of already warming waters ...great idea
Besides heat dissipation there is another non-trivial advantage: free real-estate. And no rent, no 50ft concrete wall, no park spaces, no security guards, ...
Why would I throw my PC into the ocean? Its not a car battery!
LOL that Lockness Monster on the Lake nice touch guys.
Are MS getting their ideas from re-watching old episodes of _Metalocalypse_ now?
"This isn't for people. It's a server for fish. ... We're going to put our new data centre in the heaviest, most brütal place on earth: the Marianas Trench."
underwater server specialist: the job of the future
I had heard about this; only thing that came to my mind was condensation on the inside but then seconds later you addressed that with mentioning they vacuum sealed the container and added Nitrogen in the void.
"Like a golf girl with tarot cards." 😆
Throw your computer into the river so electric eels can game
Great overview of the concept. Thanks
Imagine being a sys admin needing to have scuba training for on-site troubleshooting
I never even learned how to tread water.
That is very smart. But as you guys are Canadian too, suggestion. Lake Superior! Dude, THAT is cold!
The great lakes would be a great place for this. Fresh water is colder at shallow waters and isn't conductive. The metal shipwrecks in the the great lakes are very well preserved.
True and it would make the lake water warmer so better for tourists.
Not sure about the fish, but maybe with some control you could use this to increase biodiversity by adding tropical fish to non-tropical zones.
@@hubertnnn that sounds like how I want subnautica 3 to go
Riley looking absolutely unhinged in the thumbnail
Why did the cloud server go for a swim in the ocean?
Because it heard there were great waves of data and a fantastic current connection!
Rumour has it Nvidia 6000 serie will require you to submerge your computer, first to heat our garden swimming pool, next to boil of the ocean.
Shrimp 🦐 Technician are needed
I'm sure someone will complain we are heating up the ocean. Shout out to Practical Engineering footage!!
LOL Nessie at 1:48.
So your telling me there’s a NextDC floating around somewhere in the Great Barrier Reef
Flash warnings for video are awesome, thank you.
Its funny but very efficient that LTT has footage of Linus for almost every situation needed for almost every video roll / filler / graphic representation 😅
Better haul for a data center than to see the titanic. Ahaahahahahahahaahahahahahaahha
water cooling go brrrrrr
I'm not an engineer or ocean scientist, but if we do this on major scales, would there be risk for even more ocean temperature rise? I know water absorbs a lot of heat before raising temperature, but for a planet already warming slowly, is it still worth it for more than an occasional thing? Some server facilities are massive and generate tons of heat. Curious to see if it would effect ocean temperatures even a fraction of a degree and what the downstream effects would be of mass deployment.
My calculations may be wrong but with no energy loss and all of our todays electricity production converted into the heat it would take us smth like 53 million years to heat the ocean by 1°C. Not much of an issue
So, as long as those servers ran any simulation, for a brief moment in time if one of those algae said "Bro, I think we live on a simulation", they were technically correct.
That goth girl with tarot cards line was gold.
clips in this were hilarious, especially at half speed
That AirBnB joke was outta pocket!
The mishaps b roll is so good
"bumps, jostling, and other forms of human error" 5:33
O'my we have long way to go when we really discuss that dumping waste heat to ocean is revolutionary technology.
some of the companies i worked with had a 3 year renewal cycle. servers were replaced every 3 years.. i was constantly building new servers with obviously better specs and decommisioning and removing the older servers. how are they going to keep the servers for 10 years? needs change over time ....
Imagine doing server maintenance on one of these
They likely won't do any. If the 1/8th failure rate is accurate, they would just add enough redundant systems. This might even reduce the overall price because low maintenance and property fees.
it's gonna be impossible to do underwater maintenance considering the size of those tubes,when you need a fully separated airtight airlocks and responsible system for it, most likely they will be brought back out for critical maintenance
Yes in a situation like that if they couldn’t fix the problem remotely they would just power off that server.
It would be cheaper to just put a bunch more servers in the ocean than it would be to try and bring it up to replace 1 motherboard.
First time I saw Practical Engineering being referenced in a video by LMG! :)
Where in this video is he shown?
1:42
I'm more interested with data centers being used to provide district heating. A city in Finland gets like 40% of their heating from datacenters.
This is a solution looking for a problem. If you want easy access to cooling water and easy access for maintenance, just put it on a coast pier or legged rig and pump up cold water.
Super informational and educational. Good job.
Well now atleast the IT guy can become friends with the fish while trying to troubleshoot a issue with the server!
I have to wonder how many data centers we can put in the water before we begin to change that atmosphere.
If there's one thing I've learned from environmental studies, it's that we need warmer oceans. Thanks Microsoft!
Shark bites cable that delivers our bytes.
Those how played the Minerva's Den DLC know that those servers beyond the sea belong to Rapture Central Computing
1:49 Ol' Nessy?!
Human interference - cuts to Linus dropping stuff XD
1: how this increased submersed water energy release (heat) could change the behavior of sea life forms?
2: how increaded EMI could change the behavior of sea life forms?
3: how far lawyers can go to offload the "tsunami event" from the Hosting company?
Asking for a friend...
Yeah let's just plop more shit into the ocean and I'm sure the corporations promise they'll be ever so careful ..
Anchors gonna do work
that shark was trying to cut that cameras live stream lol everyone else gets mad with cameras in their face
1:08 ayooooooo🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wouldn't a bunch of these dumping waste heat into the water disrupt ocean currents? Sounds like an iffy idea to be implementing.
We need to put them in space.
Instead of off-site backups you undersea backups 🤣
I like how the clip they chose for the fresh water lake has Nesse in it, haha.
the trashcan image for airbnb's 💀