Microsoft has quietly ended its Project Natick underwater data center experiment after more than a decade of work, citing a series of quiet years that have naturally led to this point. Noelle ...

Microsoft recently pulled its underwater data center from the seabed floor, discovering that the 864 servers inside were eight times more reliable than those on land. After two years of being ...

Microsoft has quietly shelved the underwater data centre test system it deployed in the Orkney Islands, Scotland in 2018, and admitted that it is no longer planning similar new projects.

Microsoft will apply the lessons learned from its underwater datacentre experiment to both land- and sea-based facilities in the future Microsoft dropped the 40-foot container off the coast of ...