The proven reliability of the Northern Isles has prompted Microsoft to look into leveraging underwater data centers to power the full suite of Microsoft Azure cloud services. “As we are moving ...

Microsoft has quietly ended its Project Natick underwater data center experiment after more than a decade of work, citing a series of quiet years that have naturally led to this point. Noelle ...

Xu Tan, vice president of Highlander, a Shenzhen-listed maritime technology firm and a key player in China's underwater data center expansion, highlighted the advantages of submerged data facilities.

TL;DR: A Chinese company is expanding its underwater data center network with a new capsule bolted on that contains over 400 servers, boasting a computing power equivalent to 30,000 high-end ...