Microsoft retrieved a 40-foot-long, 12-rack, self-contained underwater data center from its seafloor home offshore from the Orkney Islands earlier this summer. The retrieval of the Northern Isles ...

The result was a success as the servers in the underwater data center showed a failure rate of one-eighth that of land-based data centers, according to Microsoft. id unit-1659132512259 ...

Microsoft pulled its second underwater data center out of the water in Scotland. The tech company placed a data center 117 feet underwater in spring 2018, calling it Project Natick.

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 ...

Microsoft has since fished the experimental data center out of the water for analysis. The next step is to get a larger pod, with about four times the computing power, under the ocean for testing.

The FINANCIAL — Back in 2018, Microsoft sunk an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea, plunging 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage 117 feet deep in the ocean. On September ...

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 ...

The underwater data center project was first tested off the coast of Scotland in 2018. Microsoft placed 855 servers underwater for over two years, and only six of them failed.

Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud. by Kurt Schlosser on September 14, 2020 at 11:05 am September 14, 2020 at 11:05 am.

The idea for the underwater system came from a research paper written in 2014 by several Microsoft data-center employees, including one with experience on a Navy submarine.

Microsoft data center will be the state's largest electricity user. Power needs equal 300,000 homes 450 megawatts would power more than 300,000 homes.

But Microsoft has other data center goals in mind, including a $100 billion partnership with OpenAI. In speaking with Data Center Dynamics, Walsh kept the CO+I division's plans vague. "I would say ...