Microsoft just put a data center under water

Water and electronics usually don't mix. But Microsoft thinks dumping computers in the ocean might be the wave of future.

Microsoft just finished a three-month experiment operating an underwater data center. A server rack with the power of about 300 PCs was placed into a water-tight steel cylinder and lowered into the ocean off the coast of central California.

The wacky experiment was launched because current data centers are woefully inefficient. They're built where energy and land are cheap (not close to where people actually live). And they waste so much energy cooling their massive computers.

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