Microsoft has launched its first “underwater data center,” a submersible shipping container-sized pod filled with hundreds of servers that are cooled by frigid ocean water, according to this report . It’s the culmination of a Microsoft research project aimed at bringing computing capacity to far-flung parts of the world where building conventional data centers isn’t possible. The undersea data...
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