Microsoft is evaluating the long-term prospects of underwater data centers, in a bid to cut latencies, improve service, and take advantage of some of the ocean's unique characteristics.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Data centers use a lot of energy, produce a lot of heat and require a lot of work to keep them cool. Microsoft announced Tuesday ...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that it has installed a massive data center prototype on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The data center is a 40-foot-long, submarine-like ...

Data centers consume a lot of energy and produce a lot of heat from all those servers running 24/7. Energy consumption costs can be cut by using ever more efficient hardware, but also by tapping ...

Microsoft began testing underwater data centers in 2018. While the company saw promising results, it no longer has any active underwater data centers. The tech giant will, however, apply lessons ...

Where is the text you're reading, right now? In one sense, it lives“on the internet” or“in the cloud”, just like your favorite social ...

Over the past three years, Microsoft, the world's largest vendor of computer software, has invested or released plans to ...

Putting data centers under the sea could keep them cool, and bringing them close to where users live might also reduce network latency. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant could be a threat to clean energy goals by using methane-gas power plants, environ groups say. News Sports Packers Business Suburbs Advertise Obituaries ...

Microsoft wants to help cloud computing centers and server rooms reach their customers more efficiently -- even if that means building out data centers under several hundred feet of water.