Global monopoly of technology

It was about 15 o'clock in the afternoon.

Luo Sheng's private luxury yacht was parked at sea. He and a few bodyguards wearing life jackets took a small speedboat and rushed to a ship 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 pod recovered from under the seabed was 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, and hope that tomorrow's sea conditions will remain as calm as today." Ben Katlu, who saw Luo Sheng's arrival, greeted him immediately.

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

"Pack the complete data for me and upload it to my private server. You know my IP?" Luo Sheng nodded and said.

"OK!"

Ben Katlu responded, and immediately brought Luo Sheng forward and reported on the project he was responsible for.

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

Whether it's the Blue Coast or Bluestar Technology, there are too many foreign executives, engineers, scientists, etc. As long as they are talents, as long as the factor of commercial espionage is excluded, people can be reused.

The experimental project is called "Kunpeng" and it was officially launched three years ago. This project has been publicly acknowledged for more than a year.

Bluestar Technology is currently in a state of excellence in global cloud computing services. Nebulas Star-Cloud is far ahead of its competitors in terms of technology and market share.

The group company has built 76 large data centers around the world, but this is not enough. The Internet is developing too fast. Humans are in the era of rapid development of big data, and data centers are indispensable for cloud computing services. One of the hardware infrastructure.

Today's data centers are still on land. When companies build land-based data centers, they must consider the local climate conditions, natural disasters, electricity costs, and even local policies.

As far as the mainland is concerned, not only Luo Sheng likes Lincheng very much, but other Internet technology companies like Ali also like this place very much. The local climate is cool for many years, and natural conditions can be used to cool the servers. The geology of the area is stable and away from earthquakes, tornadoes and floods And other natural disasters.

Most data centers deployed overseas favor the polar regions.

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

Bluestar is also considering the construction of a data center under the sea based on these factors.

On the seabed, sea water can be used to cool the server. The deep seabed can avoid most natural disasters. Typhoons in the southeast coast of China, hurricanes in North America, etc., may cause problems above sea level, but not on the seabed. Have any impact.

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

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

Ben Katlu looked at Luo Sheng and said: "What is going on right away is the one-year second phase of the experimental plan. During this year, we will further evaluate various data and performance, including how to cooperate with the shipyard, the server Can we provide enough reliable data and the economic effects compared with onshore data centers? Only by solving these problems can we determine the direction of the third phase of the plan."

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

The researcher immediately replied: "We also have the same concerns. For this reason, the team has 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 of the seabed center."

Luo Sheng smiled and said, "I said, how come you will see a group of marine biologists and documentary photography teams on board."

Everyone laughed.

Luo Sheng said concisely: "What have you found?"

The researcher said: "In the past three years of the first phase of the experimental project, we found that the underwater experimental data center at the bottom was not repelled by seabed creatures, but turned into a protected area."

Luo Sheng was very curious when he heard it: "A protected area?"

The researcher nodded and explained: "The images of the bottom of the sea that came back show that small fish can avoid being eaten by big fish here, and small fish can search for food here."

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

Luo Sheng said: "The commercial is not in a hurry. Solving all potential technical pain points is the first priority issue to be addressed now."

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

Luo Sheng: "What about the solution?"

At this time, the technical person in charge of the project here methodically replied: “With regard to 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. The conclusion is that it cannot be used. We have to find New technical solutions."

Holding a pen, Luo Sheng clicked on the desktop, thought about it and said: “I have a solution here. I choose to use steel as the material for the container. In order to prevent corrosion of the container, a lot of surface must be made. The coating avoids direct contact with seawater, and in order to prevent corrosion due to the peeling of the coating, it is necessary to adopt a cathodic protection strategy and choose zinc, which will not cause harm to the marine environment."

Hearing BOSS's suggestion, the few core technology researchers present all brightened up and couldn't help but applaud.

Soon after this, the perfect balance between security and economy has been achieved?

Katlu suddenly licked: "Boss is really the greatest scientific and technological genius of our time."

Just lick it, and lick it to the end.

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

However, the technicians of the "Kunpeng Project" are not dry food. The scientists under Luo Sheng are all the top IQ groups in the world. They soon thought of potential problems, and only one engineer spoke.

"In this way, the accumulation of barnacles, shells and other marine organisms on the surface of the container is also a new problem that cannot be ignored. In order to avoid unnecessary losses due to the accumulation of marine organisms on the surface of the container, we should think of a way to accelerate the surface water flow and smooth Coating solutions."

Luo Sheng nodded: "Yes, because of the smooth coating, dirt and bacteria cannot accumulate on the surface of the container, which prevents marine organisms from accumulating on the surface of the container. Find a solution as soon as possible and apply it to 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 now gone through the first stage, mainly using the internal and external double cooling grilles to exchange seawater to solve the problem of heat dissipation of the equipment, but The external grille is easy to malfunction due to the accumulation of marine life. Of the six pods we recovered this time, two of them were directly hung up, and the remaining ones are not very optimistic. This is the reason."

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

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

After a pause, the researcher immediately added: “However, we have also found a solution to this problem, that is, the pipes inside the grille are covered with extremely smooth coatings 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 quickly dissolve in seawater, it will not pollute seawater."

The researchers attending the meeting answered some of the BOSS’s questions seriously and in detail, and did not dare to lie, because unlike other bosses who do not understand technology, Luo Sheng himself is a technical boss, and the questions asked are quite professional, and The key point is that lying is found within minutes.

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

Luo Sheng nodded in satisfaction, and then asked the last question: "What about sea water pressure?"

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

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

The temporary seminar lasted less than half an hour, and the progress of the "Kunpeng Project" made him very satisfied, half a year earlier than expected.

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

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 if Bluestar Technology wants to do it, it must do it. At the very least, a topic must be opened for demonstration and research.

Luo Sheng couldn't help it after being crazily touched across the river by his peers.

Why is he able to become an idol and pride in the hearts of the people, why his company is so well-known, and why he is named "Archbishop" by the majority of netizens? It is that he is leading the trend of the technology industry time and time again, behind a large group of followers They are imitated, and they are all the famous technology giants in the past.

At present, there is only one such great man in China, Luo Sheng.

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