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Presumably it didn't work well or they wouldn't have shelved it. But do you actually know about what happened or is this all based on your priors?
by skybrian 11mo ago
Presumably it didn't work well or they wouldn't have shelved it. But do you actually know about what happened or is this all based on your priors?
- wmf 11mo agoI don't think MS ever revealed enough information to answer that. For example, I haven't seen any explanation of how heat is transferred from the servers to the skin of the container. I can guess how they did it but I don't want to make any judgement based on guesses.
- davidgerard 11mo agoCooling worked well, everything else sucked. https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-scrapped-its-project-natick-underwater-data-center-trial-heres-why-it-was-never-going-to-work https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-...
- creatonez 11mo agoThey only reported on the positives. The negatives can be intuitively guessed, because they didn't explain how they solved any of them.