Project Natick

Microsoft has ended Project Natick, its decade-long underwater data center experiment, confirming in June 2024 that it has no active subsea projects and will not pursue commercial underwater deploymen…

The AI boom's demand for data centers is pushing developers to explore underwater facilities, which could improve cooling efficiency and reduce land use, but Microsoft ended its Project Natick underwa…

Microsoft's Project Natick underwater data center, deployed near Scotland's Orkney Islands in 2018 with 864 servers, showed server failure rates at one-eighth those of land-based centers, but Microsof…