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 ...

Microsoft lost six of the 855 servers that were in the capsule during its time underwater. In a comparison experiment being run simultaneously on dry land, it lost eight out of 135 servers.

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 ...

Microsoft's underwater datacenter dreams sink by Nick Farrell on25 June 2024 Tweet ... they unleashed a submersible data centre capsule into the chilly embrace of the Scottish abyss in 2018.

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 linked to an existing underwater data center complex can handle up to 7,000 conversations per second for DeepSeek-powered AI agents.

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, Project Natick, is no longer operational. Though the project was reportedly a successful proof-of-concept by Microsoft's ...

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.