Microsoft no longer has any active underwater data centers. The company experimented with underwater data centers as part of its Project Natick. Underwater data centers saw one-eighth of the ...

Microsoft has quietly ended its Project Natick underwater data center experiment after more than a decade of work, citing a series of quiet years that have naturally led to this point. Noelle ...

Microsoft recently pulled its underwater data center from the seabed floor, discovering that the 864 servers inside were eight times more reliable than those on land. After two years of being ...

Have you heard that Microsoft is testing underwater data centers? On the surface (well, actually on the ocean floor) it’s not a bad idea. Project Natick seals a node of servers in a steel pipe ...

and sign up for TLDR… Read More Microsoft kicked off the second phase of its experimental underwater data center project Wednesday, submerging a shipping-container sized data center with 864 ...

Data centers are the "backbone of the Internet," where data and photos from the cloud are physically stored. In 2018, Microsoft sent an experimental data center down to the ocean floor encased in ...

Why You Should Watch: From Azure and Windows 11 to underwater data centers, Microsoft’s innovation and growth are sky high. Microsoft has continued to be one of the biggest spenders on building ...

SEE MORE Rendering of a data center that Microsoft is building using cross-laminated timber for its floors and ceilings in ...

The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) recently announced it had signed a business agreement for cooperation on 'Eco-friendly underwater data center complex construction ...

Innovative cooling techniques, such as underwater and floating data centers, bring more efficiency to data center cooling. Hyperscale operators such as AWS, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google are ...

Microsoft has gone public with its plans to build two datacentres in Northern Virginia made partly from wood, in the interests of cutting the amount of carbon generated by its server farm builds ...