Get the latest tech news
Microsoft shelves its underwater data center
“My team worked on it, and it worked,” says CO+I Head Noelle Walsh.
Microsoft has quietly discontinued its Project Natick underwater data center (UDC) experiment, which began in 2013. Aside from the potential energy savings, Microsoft discovered other things from the servers it installed off the coast of Scotland in 2018. The company said that the primary reason for this longevity is seawater’s temperature stability and the inert nitrogen gas used to protect the servers.
Or read this on r/technology
