Project Natick stories
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Microsoft's underwater data center comes up for air
Tue, 15th Sep 2020
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The data center housed 864 servers and cooling system infrastructure in a watertight steel tube that was approximately the size of a shipping container.
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Heat waste of Microsoft’s submarine data centre not acceptable
Tue, 6th Nov 2018
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An expert has shared his findings into Microsoft's underwater data centre project, saying the waste heat is unacceptable for climate change.
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Nadella confident future data centres will be underwater
Sat, 3rd Nov 2018
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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.
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Microsoft livestreams underwater life near Scotland data centre
Fri, 10th Aug 2018
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data centre cooling
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Microsoft announced that it had launched an underwater data centre in Scotland, but who knew that it would be so attractive to fish?.
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Microsoft takes the cloud data center to the ocean depths
Tue, 2nd Feb 2016
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Microsoft is heading to the oceans, evaluating the feasibility of rapidly deployable, low latency, energy efficient underwater data centers.