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“Microsoft’s deployed the datacenter 117 feet deep to the seafloor in 2018.” Data centers are the lifelines of all things internet. The movie that you streamed last night and the photos you have shared online work the way they work, thanks to these power-hungry data centers which squat in the outskirts of cities occupying large…
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In the spring of 2018, Microsoft deployed its Northern Isles datacenter 117 feet deep to the seafloor as a part of Project Natick. Microsoft has been experimenting with undersea data centres for years to understand the benefits and difficulties of deploying subsea data centres worldwide. With 12 racks, 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage,…
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