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 ...

In 2018 Microsoft had the idea to sink an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea as an experiment to see if submerged conditions were better for data centers.

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. The company ...

Microsoft's Project Natick enters stage two by dropping a 40-foot prototype datacenter 117 feet below the ocean surface near Scotland's Orkney Islands. It contains 12 racks playing host to 864 ...

Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it has deployed, or more precisely sunk, a self-contained data center in the waters off Scotland as part of a moonshot research initiative dubbed Project Natick.

Underwater data centers like Microsoft's Project Natick offer the benefit of free water cooling, plus they bring the ultimate in edge computing. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Submerged, or subsea data centers may be subject to intrusion by unwanted natural or man-made phenomena, in particular divers, submarines, ROVs, trained sea mammals, capture devices, or other ...

Microsoft Servers Submerged Into Liquid Baths Could Be The Future Of Data Center Cooling by Nathan Ord — Tuesday, April 06, 2021, 03:31 PM EDT Comments ...

The idea seems crazy on the surface. Software and cloud giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) built an encapsulated data center, only to send it to the bottom of the ocean floor where it will ...