Microsoft is bringing the cloud to the ocean with underwater datacenters

Water and electronics normally don’t mix very well, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft from running a data center under the sea. It sounds odd, but its true; Microsoft built a submersible data center – named Project Natick – and had it running on the seafloor of the Pacific ocean for about four months last year. Granted, it wasn’t the most powerful datacenter in the world – Microsoft equates it to about 300 desktop PCs – but it’s still an impressive feat. It wasn’t all just for show either. Building submersible data centers may sound like a clumsy idea, but Microsoft argues…

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