The underwater data center suffered just 1/8 of the equipment failures of a land-based data center.
According to the article, some other possible advantages to locating data servers underwater:
1. Cooling is a big expense on land.
2. Land in cities like New York or London are expensive, but not the nearby sea floors.
3. More than 1/2 the world's population lives within 120 miles of the sea.
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