Global Monopoly of Technology

15 o'clock in the afternoon.

Luo Sheng's private luxury yacht was parked at sea. He and several bodyguards wearing life jackets took a small speedboat to a ship that was docked on the sea not far away.

Not long after boarding the ship, when they came to the deck, a group of engineers were busy. The experimental pods recovered from the seabed were lying quietly on the deck, and the staff were recovering valuable data.

"BOSS, tomorrow we will deploy the second round of experimental underwater data centers again. I hope the sea conditions will remain as calm as today." Ben Carter, who saw Luo Sheng's arrival, immediately greeted him.

The new experimental pod will have 24 racks and 1,728 servers. Before going to sea, the oxygen and moisture in the cabin will be pumped out.

"Pack up a copy of the complete data and upload it to my private server. Do you know my IP?" Luo Sheng nodded and said.

"OK!"

Ben Cattle responded, and immediately brought Luo Sheng forward to report on the project he was responsible for.

Ben Cattle is the chief project manager of Bluestar Technology Group's "Kunpeng Project" with a data center. Although he is a foreigner, he is an American to be exact, but his ancestors are Dutch, and he is also an important member of the company.

Whether it is Cerulean Coast or Bluestar Technology, there are many foreign executives, engineers, scientists, etc., as long as it is a talent, as long as the factor of commercial espionage is excluded, people can be reused.

The experimental project, called "Kunpeng," was officially launched three years ago, and the program has been publicly acknowledged for more than a year.

Bluestar Technology is currently at the forefront of the global cloud computing service field. Nebula Star-Cloud is far ahead of its competitors in terms of technology and market share.

The group company has built 76 large-scale data centers around the world, but this is far from enough. The Internet is developing too fast. Human beings are in the era of rapid development of big data, and data centers are indispensable for cloud computing services. one of the hardware infrastructure.

Currently, data centers are still on land. When companies build onshore data centers, they must consider factors such as local climate conditions, natural disasters, electricity costs, and even local policies.

As far as the mainland is concerned, not only Luo Sheng is very fond of Lincheng, but also other Internet technology companies such as Ali.

Stay away from natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods.

Data centers deployed overseas tend to favor polar regions.

Simply put, the temperature is low and stable, there are no natural disasters, and electricity is cheap.

Bluestar Technology also considers these factors to build a data center on the seabed.

On the seabed, seawater can be used to cool the server, and most of the natural disasters can be avoided in the deep seabed. Typhoons on the southeast coast of the country, hurricanes in North America, etc., may cause problems above sea level, but not on the seabed. have any effect.

It can also use tidal and offshore wind power to generate electricity, and most of the big cities are coastal cities, which can also alleviate the problem of data transmission delays.

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Inside the cabin, Luo Sheng, Ben Catrou and the engineers and scientists of the experimental project of the "Kunpeng" plan are sitting together and discussing the technical issues together.

Ben Catrou looked at Luo Sheng and said: "The second phase of the one-year experimental plan is going on. During this year, we will further evaluate various data and performance, including how to cooperate with the shipyard, server Whether it can provide enough reliable data, the economic effects compared with onshore data centers, etc., can solve these problems to determine the trend of the three-phase plan.”

Luo Sheng looked around the crowd, and his eyes fell on a researcher: "I am more worried that the construction of a data center on the seabed will affect the living environment of marine creatures. Such concerns must be taken seriously, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature is the road to sustainable development. ."

The researcher immediately replied: "We also have such concerns. For this reason, the team developed a set of tools to track the creatures living in the sea near the data center, and to continuously pay attention to the ecosystem in the center of the seabed."

Luo Sheng smiled and said, "I said how come I saw a group of marine biologists and a documentary photography team on the boat."

The crowd laughed.

Luo Sheng said concisely: "What did you find?"

The researcher said: "In the past three years of the first phase of the experimental project, we found that the submerged underwater experimental data center has not been repelled by seabed creatures, but has become a protected area."

Luo Sheng was quite curious when he heard this: "A protected area?"

The researcher nodded and explained: "The returned images of the seabed show that the small fish can avoid being eaten by the big fish here, and the small fish can feed here again."

After a while, Ben Catrou took out a document and read it and said: "The experimental project will officially enter the second phase of the experimental work tomorrow, but its official commercial use has not yet been determined."

Luo Sheng said: "There is no rush for commercial use. Solving all potential technical pain points is the first priority to be dealt with now."

Catrou nodded and said, "Because the main body of the 'Kunpeng Database' is located on the seabed, the corrosion resistance of the container's shell, its impact on marine life, and its water pressure cannot be ignored."

Luo Sheng: "What about the solution?"

At this time, the technical leader of the project here replied in an orderly manner: "Regarding seawater corrosion, in terms of material selection, although titanium alloys can achieve excellent performance and excellent corrosion resistance, due to the high cost and our The scale is too large, so it is not suitable for the production of containers.”

"The research of composite materials is currently the focus of the research team, and it also has strong corrosion resistance and relatively excellent cost advantages, but it cannot withstand excessive water pressure, and the conclusion is that it cannot be used, we have to find new technological solutions.”

Luo Sheng, who was holding a pen, clicked on the table, thought about it, and said, "I have a solution here. I choose to use steel as the material for making the container. In order to prevent the corrosion of the container, the surface must be made of a lot of The coating avoids direct contact with seawater, and in order to prevent corrosion due to coating peeling, a cathodic protection strategy has to be employed, choosing zinc, which does not harm the marine environment.”

Hearing the suggestion of BOSS, several core technology researchers present were all bright, and couldn't help but applaud.

So soon the perfect balance of security and economy?

Cattle licked: "Boss is indeed the greatest technological genius of our time."

Just lick it, lick it to the end.

Luo Sheng has long been immune to this kind of flattery, and has no expression.

However, the technical staff of the "Kunpeng Project" are not dry. The scientists under Luo Sheng's command are all of the world's top IQ groups. They quickly thought of potential problems and saw an engineer speak.

"In this way, the accumulation of marine organisms such as barnacles and shells on the surface of the container is also a new problem that cannot be ignored. In order to avoid unnecessary losses caused by the accumulation of marine organisms on the surface of the container, we should think of an accelerated surface water flow and smoothing as soon as possible. coating solutions.”

Luo Sheng nodded: "Yes, due to the use of the smooth coating, dirt, bacteria, etc. cannot accumulate on the surface of the container, so that marine organisms will not gather on the surface of the container. Find a solution as soon as possible and apply it in the third phase of the experiment."

Everyone immediately made a memo.

After a while, the researcher said: "In addition, there is the problem of heat dissipation of the container. The 'Kunpeng Project' has gone through the first stage, mainly using the internal and external double heat dissipation grilles to exchange seawater to solve the problem of equipment heat dissipation, but The external grilles are prone to failure due to the accumulation of marine life, and two of the six pods we recovered this time were directly hung up, and the remaining few were not optimistic, that’s why.”

Luo Sheng asked, "Have you found a solution?"

The researcher nodded and said: "I have found it. We discovered this problem a year ago through the camera on the surface of the submarine data center. The second stage of the plan has cancelled the external exchange grille and adopted the method of seawater inhalation to ensure the cooling effect. "Although this solution can effectively reduce costs and ensure high efficiency of heat dissipation, marine organisms will also enter the internal grid and accumulate."

After a pause, the researcher immediately added: "But we also found a solution to this problem, that is, the pipes inside the grid are covered with a very smooth coating and the equipment is equipped with electrolytic chlorine production equipment, which produces chlorine gas. It is enough to kill bacterial organisms in seawater, and because chlorine can dissolve in seawater quickly, it will not cause pollution to seawater."

The researchers at the meeting answered some of the boss's questions one by one seriously and in detail, and did not dare to lie, because unlike other bosses who do not understand technology, Luo Sheng himself is a technology boss, and the questions asked are quite professional, and Deep down, lying is discovered in minutes.

So wherever the development progress is, I dare not hide it or exaggerate it.

Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and immediately asked the last question: "What about the seawater pressure?"

The researcher said: "The water pressure on the seabed is terrible. After multiple considerations, the Kunpeng technical team finally decided to design the device in a circular shape. Because any matrix shape will be damaged due to the problem of seawater pressure, and the circular structure can be as effective as possible. Reduce the pressure."

"According to the recovered pod inspection report, it has been possible to achieve safe operation at a depth of 170 meters, and the limit depth is 330 meters, but the depth of deployment during the test is only 100 meters and the coating is as thick as 75 mm. The second stage Its performance has been greatly improved, achieving a deployment depth of 290 meters with a coating thickness of only 19 mm.”

The temporary seminar lasted less than half an hour, and he was very satisfied with the progress of the "Kunpeng Plan", which was half a year earlier than expected.

At present, the research of submarine data center is not only the pioneer of Bluestar Technology, but also has a large number of followers behind.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon and other large-scale European and American technology giants in the field of cloud computing services also regard this as a key research and demonstration topic. It seems that the industry has reached a tacit consensus that what Bluestar Technology wants to do must be done. , at least to open a topic to demonstrate research.

Being madly touched by his peers to cross the river, Luo Sheng couldn't help it.

Why he can become an idol and pride in the hearts of the people, why is his company so well-known, and why is he named "Archbishop" by the majority of netizens who eat melons They are imitating, and they are all tech giants who were famous in the past.

At present, there is only one such genius in the country, and that is Luo Sheng.

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