The Future of Data Centers Might Be Underwater

Microsoft’s recent experiment shows that this is not just feasible, but also practical

Earlier this summer, Microsoft made an unusual call to some marine specialists asking for their help to retrieve a shipping-container sized capsule from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. After an intricate performance by ropes and winches attached to a gantry crane, out came a data center covered in algae, barnacles, and sea anemones. The Microsoft team was “pretty impressed with how clean it was.”…