Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in, scrubbed off algae and barnacles and assessed the ...

Microsoft installed a data center underwater off of Scotland in 2018 to see ... The next step was creating the Northern Isles data center, a 40-foot long shipping container-like vessel with 864 ...

Microsoft is shipping a data centre in a 40-foot container. What’s inside, and what’s it for? Your email has been sent If there’s one thing you can rely on, in today’s world, it’s change ...

Microsoft Corp.’s plan to fill its mammoth Chicago data center with servers housed in 40-foot shipping containers has experts wondering whether the strategy will succeed.

Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

Microsoft Azure just announced a new design for modular, portable data centers. Azure is the company's cloud computing service, used by big names including Boeing, eBay, and Samsung.. The Azure ...

Microsoft is giving an update on its underwater Northern Isles datacenter placed inside a watertight shipping-container-size enclosure and has spent its time under 117 feet of water since being ...

The growing demands of Microsoft’s core customers necessitate dramatic alterations in the way Microsoft’s data centers are set up. Before their server racks were replaced one at a time,… ...

Microsoft is taking its container approach to data centers a step further, making the building housing the data center itself a module. Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision ...

Microsoft has released more details on the design of its data center containers, assembled on-site - the company's main strategy for scaling IT infrastructure going forward. Kevin Timmons, general ...

Microsoft's top data center manager said last week that the company plans to install up to 220 shipping containers, each holding 1,000 to 2,000 servers, at a new facility near Chicago.

The tests being done in Microsoft’s shipping container are part of a pilot project with Eaton Corp., a power management company, and PJM. But the early returns are promising.