Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

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. Today, the company has reported ...

After previously testing the feasibility of underwater deep sea data centres Microsoft has this week announced it has deployed a Northern Isles datacenter at the European Marine Energy Centre.

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 ...

Heat is a more difficult problem, though. Microsoft's latest idea to deal with it is by placing a data center on the sea floor near Orkney. As the BBC reports, this experimental data center is ...

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.

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 ...