Why Microsoft Has Underwater Data Centers

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Eight million data centres around the world are processing our entire online lives thousands of times a second, but Microsoft may have just rewritten this growing industry, and it may be for the better.

With our reliance on cloud based services expected to be at an all time high in 2021 due to a huge shift online pushed forward by the ongoing pandemic, the need for the most energy and time efficient data centres is crucial moving forward. Microsoft has just reached the end of a two year stage two experiment, sinking our data to the ocean floor, and here’s why this is big news.

On 9 July 2020, the tech giant reeled up what it calls its ‘Northern Isles,’ a 12.2 metre long steel cylinder, from the seabed. The giant tube remained 117 feet below the surface for 2 whole years, gathering data which would later be analysed by engineers.

The company chose to locate this long term experiment 10 miles off the coast of Scotland in the Orkney Islands archipelago. Here, 100% of the energy comes from environmentally green sources such as wind and solar.

Why Microsoft Has Underwater Data Centers
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Meanwhile in some submarine:

Crew: How the HELL am I getting 5G network down here!?

bnlish
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Microsoft: moves data underwater for all the natural disasters. Threats, environmental damages.

Whale : gulps the data pill*

sagunmdr
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"Half a decade" is a weird way to say "only 5 years"

RyanKearney
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"It's good for the fish" - Microsoft

ennuied
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We just watched an ad for microsoft promoting how it plans to get around the issue of data centers in international waters not having to worry about your country's laws.

monzy
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A plot for a movie. "Waterworld 2: Data Retrieval."

jasonmartinez
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It's time to take my gaming pc and shift into a river

Vikash
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IT server support personnel have to be very highly skilled and experienced in deep sea diving.
IT staff: "Where is the external connection port? The whole thing is full of corals" 😅

TechTubeTVOfficial
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"Fish adore it."
Until your pull that shit out for maintenance, yeah.

MindTheMadness
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Wow, great update 2 years from now, heard of this 2 years ago and forgot that it even happen! Good thing I was subscribed

aiztoh
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It is good that the video also includes the issue related to artificial heat in the ocean. It would be interesting to compare the efficiency and impact of heat generated in the ocean vs heat in land.

TryAdaptLearn
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It's very sensible move from Microsoft in my opinion.

investingtips
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And if Richard Hendricks' Pied Piper compression platform gets on board, they could shrink the under water data center by two thirds. :-)

KeunMikeun
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I don't think the marine life would appreciate these data centers being pulled out of the sea floor and cleaned every 5 years...

eiolenimea
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2:50 I can see the digital ocean maps now

davidhuns
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rogue AI: that looks like a nice place to live in

kinngrimm
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Microsoft in 2030: WE NOW HAVE FLOATING AIR CENTERS IN THE SKY

Hasan-Gaming
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YouTube at midnight: *recommends this video*

Me: yeah, I'd love to know why they have underwater servers

alexhooper
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3:35 What do you mean with "combined output of 27.6 peta bytes"?
27.6 peta bytes of "storage capacity" or 27.6 peta bytes per [insert unknown time unit here] of throughput?

Cubinator
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As a datacenter tech, I can tell you we have to do far more maintenance on servers than people realize. I doubt most companies want to risk loss of data due to the fact you can't perform maintenance right away.

BasicShapes