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Microsoft Serves Cloud From the Sea Bed (datacenterdynamics.com)

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-tell-if-it's-raining-there dept.

judgecorp writes: A Microsoft Research project to run a data center underwater was so successful the team actually delivered commercial Azure cloud services from the module, which was 1km off the US Pacific coast for three months. The vessel, dubbed Leona Philpot after a Halo character, is a proof of concept for Project Natick, which proposes small data centers that could be submerged for five years or more, serving coastal communities.

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  1. Re:Open Waters.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sounds like the current corporate mindset towards IT workers as well.

  2. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So their portable data center is about the size of a container. Why not put it on dry land? Certainly renting ground the size of a container from someone has to be cheaper than running undersea cables. This seems like a stunt, not a business plan.

    But this is a sunk cost.