Data centers are hot, noisy and usually inefficiently located. Microsoft's solution? Put them at the bottom of the sea. Following initial prototype testing, the company's years-long Project Natick ...

Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud by Kurt Schlosser on September 14, 2020 at 11:05 am September 14, 2020 at 11:05 am Share 312 Tweet ...

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to ...

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.

After previously testing the feasibility of underwater deep sea data centres Microsoft has this week announced it has deployed a Northern Isles datacenterThe Project Natick’s 40-foot long ...

Microsoft began testing underwater data centers in 2018. While the company saw promising results, it no longer has any active underwater data centers. The tech giant will, however, apply lessons ...

Microsoft drops data center into the sea: 'It will keep working for five years' Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer June 6, 2018 at 4:31 a.m. PT Video: Microsoft shows of its Project Natick ...

Microsoft has been working on a subsea data center for a few years now. Orkney is actually Phase 2 of the project, with Phase 1 taking place off the coast of California back in 2016.

The company open-sourced a number of patents relating to submerged data centers in 2021.. Microsoft patented a high-pressure data center in 2019 and an artificial reef data center patent in 2017, but ...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it has installed a massive data center prototype on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The data center is a 40-foot-long, submarine-like ...

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.