A few months ago Microsoft installed their Project Natick underwater data centre in the Scottish seas and began using it as a live data centre, studying the feasibility of the project under real-life conditions for 12 months.
Deploying datacenters along the coast has a significant advantage, data speeds. Since most of the world’s population lives within about 120 miles of the coast, data needs to travel less distance to reach coastal people.
It also takes advantage of the free cooling and renewable energy provided by the underwater location.
At the Future Decoded conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently called Project Natick the future of data centres, boasting “It was very fast to build, the entire supply chain of it, from start to finish, was 90 days.”
Not everyone is however happy with Microsoft’s approach to cheap cooling.
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