IT and Water
People are living near water – so is IT Water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface but it is mostly unexplored space. We know more about Pluto than the bottom of our seas! Statistics show that over 50% of the world’s population lives closer than 3 km to a surface freshwater body, and only 10% of the population lives further than 10 km away. That’s why also most of the computing is done near water. Today many data centers use sea water for cooling air to keep the servers at reasonable temperatures. Google has even patented and since 2010 built […]
