Starlink Maritime will be a real kick in the pants for existing providers, considering how quickly a huge customer like Royal Caribbean decided to buy in to the new satellite on the block. Current satellite at sea options aren't great: expensive and slow, having enjoyed a market with little competition or innovation for the last couple decades. From the report: The test deployment aboard the Freedom of the Seas "received tremendous positive feedback," and if you've ever been on one of these boats, you can probably guess why. But what happens if something goes wrong, or a customer wants to replace their servers? According to Subsea, customers can schedule periodic maintenance, including server replacement, and the company says that would take 4-16 hours for a team to get to the site, bring up the required pod(s), and replace any equipment.Įarlier this week, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines announced it will be adding Starlink to its whole fleet, "after a pilot service on one of its ships got rave reviews," reports TechCrunch. However, the Subsea pods are designed to passively disperse the heat, rather than using pumps as is typical in submersion cooling in land-based datacenters.
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Inside, the servers are also immersed in a dielectric coolant, which conducts heat but not electricity. The Subsea pods are kept cool by being immersed in water, which is one reason for the reduced power and CO2 emissions. It will be sited in shallow water, visible from the port, whereas the Njord01 pod in the Gulf of Mexico and the Manannan pod in the North Sea are expected to be deeper, at 700-900ft and 600-700ft respectively. As it is a commercial deployment, Jules Verne will be open for any prospective clients or partners to come and check it out, virtually or otherwise, according to Reynolds. The pod-to-shore link in this deployment provides a 100Gbps connection. Additional capacity, if and when required, is delivered by adding another pod. Inside, there is space for about 16 datacenter racks accommodating about 800 servers, according to Subsea. The Port Angeles deployment, known as Jules Verne, will comprise one 20ft pod, which is similar in size and dimensions to a standard 20-foot shipping container (a TEU or Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit). However, according to Subsea founder Maxie Reynolds, it can also deploy 1MW of capacity for as much as 90 percent less cost than it takes to get 1MW up and running at a land-based facility. The company claims that placing its datacenter modules underwater can reduce power consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent, as well as lowering latency by allowing the datacenter to be located closer to metropolitan areas, many of which are located near the coast.
The Register reports: Subsea, which says it has already deployed its technology with "a friendly government faction," plans to put its first commercial pod into the water before the end of this year near Port Angeles, Washington. T-Mobile said the post-merger company would employ at least 11,000 additional workers by 2024, but so far, it looks like the exact opposite is occurring.Ī company called Subsea Cloud is planning to have a commercially available undersea datacenter operating off the coast of the US before the end of 2022, with other deployments planned for the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. A company spokesperson told the Journal that the layoffs "were part of continuing organizational shifts during the past few months" without exactly saying how many jobs were eliminated or if there would be more layoffs in the future. In April 2020, the companies had about 80,000 workers combined however, as the Journal points out, T-Mobile's most recent annual report ( PDF) said it ended 2021 with 75,000 full- and part-time employees. T-Mobile execs promised then that the merger was "all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the new T-Mobile will be jobs-positive from Day One and every day thereafter." An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Wall Street Journal reports T-Mobile's engineering and network operations teams are experiencing waves of layoffs, which have included managers and executives, on top of thousands of jobs eliminated by restructuring after the company merged with Sprint in 2020.