A Microsoft team has been working for several months on the second phase of Project Natick\u2014an \u2018undersea datacenter\u2019 that was successfully deployed in early June 2018 off Orkney (United Kingdom). It will be remotely operated for a year. Microsoft chose the Naval Group, a French company specialized in shipbuilding and renewable marine energies, for Natick\u2019s design, implementation, deployment and maintenance.<\/p>\n
The underwater data centre, as powerful as several thousand individual PCs and capable of storing the equivalent of around 5 million films, was designed to remain submerged with no need for direct human intervention for 5 years. It will operate for a year, during which its performance will be monitored in real-life conditions.<\/p>\n
The data centre is installed in an underwater cylinder inspired by Naval Group\u2019s submarine designs, and is positioned atop a triangular base (\u2018subsea docking structure\u2019). An air\/water exchanger enables the data centre to be kept cool by the lower temperatures underwater. According to Microsoft, this project promises to meet the needs of its customers. An offshore data centre brings the \u2018cloud\u2019 closer to people, reducing network latency and improving reactivity (half of the world\u2019s population lives less than 200 kilometres from the sea), and natural underwater cooling enables energy savings of up to 95%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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