Spencer Fowers
Principal Researcher
新闻与深度文章
Microsoft (MSFT) recently labelled its Northern Isles experiment a success, as the subsea data center was found to be cost and energy efficient as well as reliable. The tech giant retrieved its submerged data center for analysis from the seafloor…
新闻报道 | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater…
新闻报道 | DataCenter Knowledge
Microsoft Finds Underwater Data Centers Practical
Underwater data centers are a go, Microsoft said Monday, a couple months after its researchers pulled their experimental sealed capsule of a data center out of the ocean off the shores of Orkney Islands, in Scotland, where it had been…
Microsoft sunk the 40-foot long vessel off the coast of Scotland. The data center contains 12 racks of computers with a total of 864 servers. Microsoft said it can hold data and process information for up to five years without…
新闻报道 | ComputerWorld
Microsoft tests underwater data center
The company is testing underwater data centers with an eye to reducing data latency for the many users who live close to the sea and also to enable rapid deployment of a data center.