<h5>Where is the data centre located in China?</h5><p>China has begun building the world's first commercial underwater data centre. It is located off the coast of Sanya, a coastal city near Hainan Island.</p><p>The Hainan Undersea Data Centre is a joint project supported by the Sanya government and various other companies and organisations involved in its construction, design, etc. Beijing Sinnet will operate the data centre.</p><p>This project was announced in 2021. It will be completed in 2025. Its construction will cost around $879 million.</p><h5>What do we know about this data centre?</h5><p>There are plans to install a hundred massive data storage units for the data centre. The data storage unit has a 25-year lifespan and can survive natural disasters. Each data storage device can process more than four million high-definition photographs in 30 seconds. The performance is said to be comparable to 60,000 computers working together.</p><p>The first data storage unit was installed in April. Recently, another data storage unit was installed. The new data centre will span 68,000 square metres or nearly ten soccer fields. So, installing it on the seabed will help save land. This saved land can be used for various other purposes, like building houses, industries, etc.</p><p>The new data centre can also help save lots of energy and fresh water. Submerged data centres can use the freezing seawater for natural cooling, lowering running costs. The data centre will not consume any extra water. The finished data centre would be 40% to 60% more energy efficient than land-based data centres.</p><h5>Are underwater data centres dependable?</h5><figure class="image"><img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/china-constructs-an-underwater-data-centre%2Fproject-natick-underwater-datacenter.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=747ca44a-2b25-4bd4-a042-eb6ceeb16958"><figcaption>The data centre used by Microsoft for its research. Photo by Microsoft.</figcaption></figure><p>In 2018, Microsoft's Project Natick team put a data centre 117 feet below the ocean. For the next two years, team members monitored the performance of the data centre's servers before it was taken out of the water. Microsoft believes that undersea data centres are dependable and use energy in a sustainable manner.</p><p>The Hainan data centre is not the only one under construction in China. Other similar projects are also being done across China.</p>

The underwater data centre is located off the coast of Sanya, a coastal city near China’s Hainan Island.

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