Microsoft dumps a 40-foot data center to the ocean floor off Scotland’s coast

Microsoft's Project Natick enters phase two by dropping a 40-foot prototype data center 117 feet below the ocean surface near Scotland's Orkney Islands. It contains 12 racks playing host to 864 servers and their associated cooling.

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