Microsoft sinking their data centers to the bottom of the sea!

Underwater Data Centers

We all know by now thats servers genrate heat and a lot of servers generate a LOT of heat! Then there is dust, maintenance, and the corrosive oxygen in the atmosphere.
What if you put a Data Center in a sealed tank remove the air or replace it with say Nitrogen. Sink it into the cooling depths of the North Atlantic? What would happen? Microsoft have been testing this very idea and whats even better it rather than Iceland is in the UK! In Scotlands Hebrides to be exact. Well sheltered and Eco friendly power supplies make this quite a secure (lets not forget that) way to improve the carbon footprint for the ever expanding demands of cloud services.

 


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