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Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success
Project Natick's origins stretch all the way back to 2013. Following a three-month trial in the Pacific, a submersible data center capsule was deployed 120 miles off...
It sounds as if placing the 40-foot-long tube filled with 12 racks of servers off the coast of Scotland was a success, but Redmond is now focusing on its land-based data centers. "I'm not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world," Noelle Walsh, the head of the company's Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) division, told DatacenterDynamics. In May, researchers discovered that the unique environment of underwater data centers makes them vulnerable to a specific attack: sound waves.
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