Microsoft announced that it has been working with Naval Group to design a data center for\u00a0processing workloads under the sea.<\/p>\n
The project could potentially assist Microsoft to shift its factory-built modular designs from earth to sea while delivering lightning-quick cloud services to coastal cities around the globe.<\/p>\n
The data center, dubbed Project Natick, is the same size as shipping containers and\u00a0was originally tested in France by Naval Group before being shipped to Scotland.<\/p>\n
Naval Group assisted the tech giant by helping design the marine energy technologies, and to help determine whether the data center can save energy by cooling it in the sea.<\/p>\n
Microsoft attached the data center to the\u00a0seafloor near Orkney Islands, which needed the assistance of a crane, 10 winches and a gantry barge.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor true delivery of AI, we are really cloud dependent today,\u201d said\u00a0Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI and Research on Microsoft’s blog post.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can be within one internet hop of everyone, then it not only benefits our products, but also the products our customers serve.\u201d<\/p>\n Natick’s team will also record and monitor the performance of the data centre throughout the year, ensuring power consumption and internal humidity is working how it should be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft announces that it has been working with Naval Group to design a datacentre for\u00a0processing workloads under the sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70,2851,26,2850,2854,2853,389,2852],"yoast_head":"\n