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Microsoft is storing its servers underwater on a test program, hoping that the company’s data centers in the aquatic environment will be better protected, writes CNN.
The Microsoft team hypothesized that nitrogen, which is less corrosive than oxygen, and the lack of interaction with those servers make the data center more reliable underwater.
Additionally, seafloor temperatures make the hardware self-cool much better than if data centers were operated on land.
Microsoft recently launched its second subsea data center in the North Sea, near Scotland. The tech company installed a data center 50 meters underwater in the spring of 2018, and named it Project Natick.
Now the data center has been removed to see what state the server is in.
“We were quite impressed with how clean it really was,” said Spencer Fowers, a senior member of the Microsoft Research Group technical staff for special projects.
This is Microsfot’s second project, in which it places the company’s servers in aquatic environments after an underwater data center was launched in August 2016 in the Pacific, near the coast of California.
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