- Published on September 17, 2020
- In Deep Tech
What Does Microsoft Aim To Accomplish With Underwater Data Center
Image by Project Natick, Vessel retrieval Stromness, Orkney. Microsoft - Tuesday 7th to Wednesday 15th of July 2020
- By Ram Sagar
“Microsoft’s deployed the datacenter 117 feet deep to the seafloor in 2018.”
Data centers are the lifelines of all things internet. The movie that you streamed last night and the photos you have shared online work the way they work, thanks to these power-hungry data centers which squat in the outskirts of cities occupying large real estate. So what is an alternative to the non-land, non-power issue of data centers? Deploy them underwater.
Microsoft has been experimenting with this idea for over 5 years now with their Project Natick, and the results are finally out. Microsoft’s team recently have proved the underwater data center concept was feasible and the concept is practical.
How Microsoft Made It Work
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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