Project Natick news stories

Microsoft
Microsoft's underwater data center comes up for air
The data center housed 864 servers and cooling system infrastructure in a watertight steel tube that was approximately the size of a shipping container.

Microsoft
Heat waste of Microsoft’s submarine data centre not acceptable
An expert has shared his findings into Microsoft's underwater data centre project, saying the waste heat is unacceptable for climate change.

Microsoft
Nadella confident future data centres will be underwater
In June this year Microsoft stretched the boundaries of data centres by dumping one in the sea and Nadella says there will be many more.

Cloud
Microsoft livestreams underwater life near Scotland data centre
Microsoft announced that it had launched an underwater data centre in Scotland, but who knew that it would be so attractive to fish?

Cloud
Microsoft takes the cloud data center to the ocean depths
Microsoft is heading to the oceans, evaluating the feasibility of rapidly deployable, low latency, energy efficient underwater data centers.