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Microsoft Retrieves Its Sea Floor Data Center After 2 Years – PCMag AU
Project Natick, consisting of 12 racks of servers sealed in a cylinder has been a successful experiment.
(Photo by Simon Douglas/Microsoft)
In May 2018, Microsoft Research decided to test how well a self-sustaining underwater data center would work by sealing 12 racks of servers in a cylinder and dropping them in the ocean off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Two years later, the cylinder has been retrieved in order to fully assess how well it worked.
The experiment is called Project Natick and as the BBC reports, it looks to have been a success. In total, 864 servers were contained in the cylinder and…
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