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Buddy...
Heat rises, that's how a hot air balloon works.
You put something hot at the bottom of the ocean, as it heats the water, that water rises.
Cold water comes in from the sides, and the process repeats.
A geothermal vent does way more than a data center does and is a huge ecological benefit.
Obviously there's better things to put down there then a data center, but this is literally the only place a data center is t hurting the planet simply by existing.
Hell, build near an existing vent and harvest it's heat for energy why piggybacking on the existing currents and you can literally get "free" compute power with no ecological downside.
This tech won't end with this data enter, it's just where the money is currently at and that drives our research these days.
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Like, it would probably take a lot more typing for people to get how huge this is, but we'll be lucky if we're still alive to see the real benefits of what was developed for this project