Project Natick stories
Microsoft's underwater data center comes up for air
Tue, 15th Sep 2020
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The data center housed 864 servers and cooling system infrastructure in a watertight steel tube that was approximately the size of a shipping container.
Heat waste of Microsoft’s submarine data centre not acceptable
Tue, 6th Nov 2018
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An expert has shared his findings into Microsoft's underwater data centre project, saying the waste heat is unacceptable for climate change.
Nadella confident future data centres will be underwater
Sat, 3rd Nov 2018
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In June this year Microsoft stretched the boundaries of data centres by dumping one in the sea and Nadella says there will be many more.
Microsoft livestreams underwater life near Scotland data centre
Fri, 10th Aug 2018
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data centre cooling
Microsoft announced that it had launched an underwater data centre in Scotland, but who knew that it would be so attractive to fish?.
Microsoft takes the cloud data center to the ocean depths
Tue, 2nd Feb 2016
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Microsoft is heading to the oceans, evaluating the feasibility of rapidly deployable, low latency, energy efficient underwater data centers.