Microsoft recently pulled its underwater data center from the seabed floor, discovering that the 864 servers inside were eight times more reliable than those on land. After two years of being ...

Data centers are fast becoming one of the most power-hungry industries, since they require such heavy-duty cooling and maintenance. Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional ...

Microsoft is evaluating the long-term prospects of underwater data centers, in a bid to cut latencies, improve service, and take advantage of some of the ocean's unique characteristics. Saltwater and ...

Off the coast of Scotland's Orkney Islands, waves crash, winds whip, and a damp fog from the sea hovers in the air nearly year round. And now, underneath Scotland's cold, turbulent waters, a data ...

When Microsoft first announced it would place data centers underwater, it seemed like a bizarre idea. Microsoft is giving an update on its underwater Northern Isles datacenter placed inside a ...

Think water and electricity don’t mix? A new kind of data center is turning that idea on its head. Back in 2016 we reported on Project Natick, Microsoft’s moonshot idea of building data centers ...

Microsoft’s underwater Northern Isles data center has risen again from the ocean depth, the company announced on Monday, and it is remarkably intact other than being covered in sea scum. The data ...

Why it matters: With demand for data centers expected to rise significantly in the foreseeable future, tech firms providing cloud and distributed computing services are increasingly looking towards ...

Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

Microsoft has announced the next phase of Project Natick — an ongoing research project to determine the feasibility of underwater datacenters — by launching a full-fledged prototype datacenter off the ...

If Microsoft can run its massive, land-bound datacenters with almost no tech staff, the idea of letting a submerged datacenter operate for five years without any direct human contact seems at least ...

The FINANCIAL — Back in 2018, Microsoft sunk an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea, plunging 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage 117 feet deep in the ocean. On September 14, ...