China launches world’s first commercial underwater data centre in Hainan

China launches world’s first commercial underwater data centre in Hainan

The world’s first commercial underwater data centre is now operational in China’s Hainan, as the island province pushes to attract foreign investment by expanding the blue economy in the country’s largest pilot free-trade zone. The servers manage digital services from restaurant recommendations to travel hacks, and will be installed in a 1,300-tonne underwater data cabin…

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China’s subsea data centre could power 7,000 DeepSeek conversations a second: report

China’s subsea data centre could power 7,000 DeepSeek conversations a second: report

China has created an underwater data centre with enough computing power to support 7,000 conversations with DeepSeek per second, according to state media. A new data centre capsule was added to an existing energy efficient data processing cluster near China’s southernmost Hainan island on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV said. The addition boosted the computing power…

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