Microsoft lost six of the 855 servers that were in the capsule during its time underwater. In a comparison experiment being run simultaneously on dry land, it lost eight out of 135 servers.

Microsoft was right. In 2018, it deployed Project Natick off the coast of Scotland, submerging 855 servers and leaving them underwater for just over two years. In that time, only six underwater ...

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 ...

Buoyed by its initial success, they unleashed a submersible data centre capsule into the chilly embrace of the Scottish abyss in 2018. The capsule harboured 855 servers.

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 initiated the second phase of Project Natick, submerging the Northern Isles data center, a capsule-shaped facility housing 864 servers, about 36 meters deep in the northeast sea ...

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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.

Microsoft has axed some of its leases on data centers as DeepSeek’s rapid rise casts doubt over massive US spending on artificial intelligence, according to a report. dvoevnore – stock.adobe ...

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 ...