Nowadays everything is that works in the cloud and the demand for cloud-based services is increasing day by day.

To meet this growing need, Microsoft Why the ocean floor? What have you chosen as your new home?

A new house under the sea: Project Natick

The idea for an underwater data center, which emerged at Microsoft’s “Think Week” event in 2014, delivering high-speed cloud services to coastal communities and saving energy in general It was meant for. The first test of the project; It took place in 2018 in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.

The sunken place; It was an ideal experimental area thanks to the cool climate and the energy network that could run entirely on solar and wind energy. The data center called “Natick Northern Isles” 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage capacity It was equivalent to the computing power of hundreds of thousands of high-end consumer computers.

Why did Microsoft choose Azure for underwater?

The Natick Northern Isles data center, which surfaced in 2020 as a result of the test, Only 8 out of 864 servers failed showed that this is only one-eighth the failure rate compared to land-based data centers.

Microsoft attributes this success to two main factors: first, the equipment is damaged by being flooded. kept cool at all times and second, the closed environment filled with nitrogen instead of oxygen makes the components more resistant to corrosion.

Microsoft is considering moving all of its Azure cloud services to their new home, the ocean, in the future.

This innovative approach from Microsoft appears to set a new phase for how other companies will strengthen their cloud services. The goal is until 2030 completely carbon negative be a company.

What do you think about this issue? Do you think it is a logical move?

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