Microsoft has confirmed that its underwater data center experiment ... Project Natick was Microsoft's attempt to reduce the massive cooling overhead inherent to conventional data centers.

Microsoft has quietly discontinued its Project Natick underwater data center ... According to DataSpan, 40% of data center consumption is in cooling systems, so if Microsoft can find a way ...

including a center being built in Goodyear, Ariz., that was highlighted in a March report in The Atlantic. Microsoft’s new closed-loop water cooling system for data centers prevents the loss of ...

“There’s a lot of equipment used in cooling, and this can ... made it more challenging. “The underwater data center was a passion project of Microsoft, and it’s not something that ...

Company says this is part of its sustainability efforts as it continues to build new facilities to support AI and other technologies. Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to ...

Microsoft says by moving to closed loop liquid cooling it expects to save over 125 million liters of water per year, per data center. "We have been working since the early 2000s to reduce water ...

saying that while Amazon's data center discussions near New Carlisle centered on the water needs it would require for its cooling processes, Microsoft has indicated it has less intense water needs.

Microsoft unveiled a new data center ... First rolled out in August, the new data center design “consumes zero water for cooling” by recycling it through a “closed loop” system that ...

In addition to the new chips, Microsoft also shared advancements made towards improving data center cooling and optimizing their power consumption. For cooling, the company announced an advanced ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its underwater data center experiment, Project Natick, is no longer operational. Though the project was reportedly a successful proof-of-concept by Microsoft's ...