Now for something completely different:
An underwater datacenter… from Microsoft.
Microsoft’s underwater datacenter: Project Natick
Project Natick is a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona
Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor approximately one kilometer off the Pacific coast of the United States from August to November of 2015. Project Natick reflects Microsoft’s ongoing quest for cloud datacenter solutions that offer rapid provisioning, lower costs, high responsiveness, and are more environmentally sustainable.
Read more about Project Natick:
- Project Natick: A research project to determine the feasibility of subsea datacenters
http://www.projectnatick.com/
