Etiido Uko, writing for Tom’s Hardware:

Located off the coast of Shanghai’s Lingang Special Area, the $226 million data center was built and is managed via a direct partnership between the Chinese government and HiCloud Technology (the primary private engineering contractor specialized in subsea data centers), along with state-backed telecom providers like China Telecom.

The 24 MW facility houses nearly 2,000 servers (including GPU clusters from China Telecom and LinkWise), and is expected to process artificial intelligence, big data annotation, and 5G infrastructure workloads. Unlike conventional land-based data centers that rely heavily on industrial chillers and large HVAC systems to remove waste heat, the Shanghai UDC uses the surrounding seawater as a massive passive heat sink. The servers are sealed inside pressure-resistant subsea modules deployed roughly 35 meters beneath the surface, where stable ocean temperatures continuously absorb heat generated by the computing hardware.

The ball is now in your court, space data centers.