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 ...

Under the sea: Microsoft's submarine data centers Cloud vendors are already using wind and solar solutions to conserve energy consumed by their servers. The next frontier, however, is in the ocean ...

Clouds under the sea: Microsoft deploys its Project Natick data center off the coast of Scotland. by Tom Krazit on June 6, 2018 at 9:28 am June 7, 2018 at 3:40 pm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.