The 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 mor

The 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...