An experimental Microsoft datacenter submerged beneath the sea in Scotland’s Orkney Islands is processing workloads for a global, distributed computing project to understand the viral proteins that ...

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Data centers are fast becoming one of the most power-hungry industries, since they require such heavy-duty cooling and maintenance. Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its underwater data center experiment, Project Natick, is no longer operational. Though the project was reportedly a successful proof-of-concept by Microsoft's standards, ...

In brief: We're still seeing companies testing underwater data centers, but Microsoft has decided to call time on its experiment, Project Natick. It sounds as if placing the 40-foot-long tube filled ...

Why it matters: With demand for data centers expected to rise significantly in the foreseeable future, tech firms providing cloud and distributed computing services are increasingly looking towards ...

Microsoft installed a data center underwater off the coast of Scotland in 2018. The center was retrieved this summer and turned out successfully. Now, Microsoft is considering how to use the findings ...

Microsoft has concluded that underwater datacentres are a reliable, practical and energy-efficient alternative to traditional land-based server farms, following the completion of a multi-year research ...

Project Natick’s Northern Isles datacenter is partially submerged and cradled by winches and cranes between the pontoons of an industrial catamaran-like gantry barge. At the deployment site, a cable ...

Back on dry land after spending two years submerged in the waters off the coast of Scotland, Project Natick, Microsoft's experimental underwater datacenter prototype, has been deemed a success. First ...

Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

Microsoft Corporation MSFT has seen strong growth in its server products and cloud services division. The company is aggressively growing its data center business. What Happened: The results of an ...