Microsoft lowered a sealed cylindrical data center that contained 864 servers into the North Sea off Scotland's Orkney Islands in 2018. The 40-foot-long vessel was placed about 117 feet below the surface as part of Project Natick, which was an experiment designed to test whether data centers could operate reliably on the seabed while using seawater as part of the cooling system.
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