Why Does Microsoft Have Data Centers Under The Sea?

[soulcleric]

Now we gonna start cooking the ocean too lol

[LogicalNiko]

The other reason not mentioned is for latency purposes. These experiments showed that one can position data centers along undersea cables, off the coast of major cities (like near stock exchanges) can be viable.

[jeromelopez]

Does this cooling idea not warming the water? Leading to coral bleaching.

[ryan.quintin]

But Microsoft discontinued the project later on.

[Bruhmanlol]

So what happenes if onedrive goes down??

[hotasfireph]

now how do you do maintenance 😅? You know electronics are bound to fail eventually.

[SumTruther]

The dweebs are ruling the planet and, like the Viperoom, they’r storing information on paper. If, or when, the energy shuts down, info will survive.

[Schoffeltje]

They want to starve humanity, no fishing anymore.

[jnsmith]

Their CTO is a crab. He has the best advice.

[mattyrjackson]

Erm corrosion, tsunamis, expensive maintenance to prevent growth of marine life on the container??