China’s Guangdong province, a primary generation hub on the southeast coast, plans to move some of its giant knowledge hubs to new underwater sites in a bid to increase energy consumption, according to the plan published on Tuesday. Data centers have one of the largest commercial consumers of energy; building them underwater will decrease the need for cooling technology, which can account for about one-third of a facility’s total electrical energy consumption. Major cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will be encouraged to move “energy-intensive knowledge centers” to underwater sites, in line with the five-year marine economy progression plan….