Underwater data centers with environmental information system
View Patent ↗An underwater data center includes a plurality of data centers positioned in a water environment, powered by one or more sustainable energy sources. One or more data center nodes is coupled to the data center or included in the plurality of data centers. A controller is coupled to the one or more data center nodes. An environmental information is included.
1. An underwater data center system, comprising:
a data center positioned in a water environment, powered by one or more sustainable energy sources;
one or more data center nodes coupled to the data center;
a controller coupled to the one or more data center nodes;
a housing member that houses the data center nodes under water;
one or more cables coupled to the one or more data center nodes or the sustainable energy source;
an environmental information system including at least two sensors selected from:
subsea; satellite; aerial; and land sensors, and
wherein information derived from subsea sensor data is used to calibrate predictive models and is made available to satellite sensor systems to improve calibration.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the satellite sensors are selected from: temperature; salinity; dissolved oxygen; gradiometer; and spectroscopy.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein information derived from subsea sensor data is used to calibrate predictive models relative to environemental information of the system.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sustainable energy source is an offshore energy generation source.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the environmental information system provides a temperature of a water surface.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to redistribute excess power from the sustainable energy source to an alternate source responsive to determining that the power from the sustainable energy source is greater than an amount needed to power the system.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein a cooling fluid is provided that is a dielectric fluid, and wherein components of the data center or partial data center are submerged in the dielectric fluid.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the cooling fluid is a dielectric fluid.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a thermal transfer system coupled to or incorporated in the data center or partial data center.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sustainable energy source is a renewable energy source.
11. The system of claim 10 , further comprising:
a unit transformer coupled to an interface.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sustainable energy source is an energy source selected from at least one of: renewable energy; off shore energy generation; wind; hydroelectric; solar; geothermal; conversion of energy to one or more of hydrogen, or ammonia.
13. The system of claim 12 , further comprising:
a unit controller coupled to the interface to provide reactive power and terminal voltage control commands.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data center is configured to operate with a minimal data load by using an architecture with data being data is processed at the source and only information is transferred to the data center.
15. The system of claim 1 , where the data center uses wireless link to remove costs and carbon footprint of hard-wired link.
16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data center uses edge processing.
17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sustainable energy source is an off shore wind power generating system that includes a wind turbine.
18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wind turbine uses wind interaction with blades.
19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is coupled to a wireless device.