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> “I’m not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world.” She later added, “My team worked on it, and it worked. We learned a lot about operations below s
by tboyd47 2y ago
> “I’m not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world.” She later added, “My team worked on it, and it worked. We learned a lot about operations below sea level and vibration and impacts on the server. So, we’ll apply those learning to other cases.”
It doesn't sound like they really discontinued the project. It sounds like it got moved to another team.
- wongarsu 2y agoThe article they got the quote from has some more quotes from the interview [1]. In context it sounds to me like they lost a lot of R&D budget ("have to get more focused") and as a consequence don't pursue subsea data centers any more. But they learned a lot that is applicable to other projects they are still running. They mention liquid immersion, which is a less extreme take on the idea of trading lower failure rates for lower maintainability. 1 https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-confirms-project-natick-underwater-data-center-is-no-more/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-confirm...