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Head of Microsoft’s Cloud Operations + Innovation Noelle Walsh said, “I’m not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world.” She later added, “My team worked on it, and it worked. We learned a lot about operations below sea level and vibration and impacts on the server. So, we’ll apply those learning to other cases.”
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Microsoft shelves its underwater data center — Project Natick had fewer server failures compared to servers on land

“My team worked on it, and it worked,” says CO+I Head Noelle Walsh.

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Microsoft has officially ended its innovative Project Natick, which involved placing data centers underwater to study their feasibility and performance. The experiment, conducted in the North Sea since 2018, revealed that underwater data centers had one-eighth the failure rate of on-land counterparts.

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Project Natick: Microsoft will keine Server mehr im Meer versenken

Microsoft hat das Project Natick eingestellt und wird kein Server-Rechenzentrum in einer Kapsel mehr im Meer versenken.

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Microsoft is running an undersea data center to keep it cool

Microsoft is running an undersea data center to keep it cool

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