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 ...

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.

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 ...

In brief: We're still seeing companies testing underwater data centers ... reactive oxygen gas in the land data center. Despite everything going so well, Microsoft is discontinuing Project ...

Microsoft has claimed that the advantages of 'Project Natick' are 'the short period from installation to operation' and 'cooling ... the underwater servers. In 2020, the underwater data center ...

“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 researchers have published a paper analyzing the energy use, water consumption, and emissions of four data center cooling technologies across their life cycles. The life cycle assessment ...

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 ...