Microsoft has confirmed that its underwater data center experiment ... and the inert nitrogen gas that filled the experimental capsule. Because nitrogen gas is less reactive than oxygen gas ...

Microsoft has officially killed off Project Natick, its underwater data center experiment ... on board interacting with the servers in the capsule and the use of less corrosive nitrogen in ...

but Redmond is now focusing on its land-based data centers. Microsoft lost six of the 855 servers that were in the capsule during its time underwater. In a comparison experiment being run ...

Over the course of a 105-day trial, Microsoft tested the underwater data center, christened the Leona Philpot after a character from the “Halo” videogame series on its Xbox platform. The steel capsule ...

Software King of the World Microsoft ... a datacenter capsule a 120 miles off the rugged coast of Scotland. Vole wanted to explore the wild and woolly world of underwater data centres.

Proposed underwater data center ... NetworkOcean’s launch announcement pictured what it described as a 0.5-megawatt capsule “to be tested underwater in ... Microsoft’s tests off the ...

The new capsule is linked to an existing ... expanding the data center massively over time. Microsoft tried experimenting with underwater data centers as a possible way forward starting in 2018 ...

Northern Isles datacenter at the European Marine Energy Centre, courtesy of Microsoft · Microsoft. Reynolds's startup focuses on building, deploying, and maintaining subsea data centers.

Microsoft has confirmed that its underwater data center experiment ... The experimental Project Natick capsule after it was recovered from the seafloor. Credit: Microsoft Microsoft was right.