Microsoft datacenter thrives under frigid waters of Scottish sea

[Windows Central]

The frigid underwater conditions of the sea might be perfect for datacenters.

[h=2]What you need to know[/h]

• Microsoft retrieved a datacenter that was placed underwater over two years ago.
• The datacenter had one-eighth of the failure rate of datacenters on the ground.
• The project is part of Microsoft's Project Natick.

Back in 2018, Microsoft sank a datacenter into the Scottish sea. Now, over two years later, Microsoft shared its findings from its undersea datacenter experiment. Marine specialists retrieved the barnacle-covered datacenter out of the Scottish Sea to determine how the datacenter faired in the icy depths.

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