This week a group of researchers deployed the first working production data center 117 feet below the surface of the sea, where it is designed to work without the need for maintenance for five years.

But apparently that’s not good enough for Microsoft, so for its newest data center, the company crammed 12 racks of servers into a bus-sized metal cylinder, and then sank it off the coast of ...

Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International ... The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), based at the University of Colorado Boulder, announced Tuesday ...

Microsoft was talking about doing a data center ... with the sea and capture more energy. The crew will certainly have to face any potential environmental damage caused by these deep sea data ...

Continued investments in the collection of environmental data ... deep sea is on, and conflict in international waters over disputed resources is likely on the horizon. Gracelin Baskaran is director ...

This raises a crucial question: What environmental factors are most important for deep-sea ecosystems, and how might they be disrupted? A study co-led by Professor Moriaki YASUHARA and Ms Raine ...