Comment by arjie
13 hours ago
Amusingly I've been part of two critical downtime heating incidents at two different datacenters: one was when Hosting.com's SOMA datacenter got so hot that they were using hoses on the roof to cool it down; and the second one was when Alibaba's Chai Wan datacenter got so hot everything running there went down, including the control plane. So I imagine the proximity to the ocean does not yield any additional advantage in terms of emergency heat sinking. You have x capacity to pump heat out and it doesn't matter if you're next to the sea or in the middle of Nebraska because your entire system needs to be built to be rated for some performance.
yeah but capacity is easier/cheaper to build/overbuild if you can access cold-ish water at all times
Didn't really help Fukushima though. In fact, the ocean came to it. They didn't have to go get it.