First Underwater Datacenter by Microsoft — Project Natick
Our technology is advancing in such a way that, In ancient times, we used the force of water to generate electricity and now we are using the space below water to store a huge datacenter!!
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Microsoft has pulled out its underwater datacenter from the ocean after 2 years and this is what they found out !!!
Microsoft came up with this amazing idea in 2014 during ThinkWeek !! ThinkWeek is an event that gathers employees to share out-of-the-box ideas. One of the ideas is about underwater datacenters. Since, the datacenters on land have many disadvantages.
Likely, On land datacenters run into issues like corrosion from oxygen and humidity. But in a watertight environment with tight temperature control far fewer issues crop up. Microsoft says the underwater datacenter had one eighth the failure of a land based datacenter.
Microsoft’s Project Natick team deployed the Northern Isles datacenter 117 feet deep to the seafloor in spring 2018. For the next two years, team members tested and monitored the performance and reliability of the datacenter’s servers. This datacenter had 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage.
The idea of an underwater datacenter offers an intriguing potential solution to the growing demand of cloud storage and data processing capabilities while also taking advantage of natural resources and reducing energy costs.
Earlier this summer, marine specialists pulled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated with algae, sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Microsoft says the underwater datacenter had one eighth the failure of a land based datacenter.
With the success of this experiment Microsoft was ready to deploy more datacenters under water.
This concept was considered a potential way to provide lightning-quick cloud services to coastal populations and save energy. So, implementing underwater datacenters are more economical and provides highly efficient cooling solutions underwater.
