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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

submitted 11 months ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 8 points 11 months ago

It's just greenwashing, just a concept that was mothballed ten minutes after the photo op

[-] YMS@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Well, you are right that Microsoft never applied this large-scale, nor does it currently run any underwater datacenters. But project Natick anyway ran for over five years, with the first prototype having been deployed in 2015 and the last one recovered in 2020. So apparently not exactly the definitive future of Microsoft datacenters, but much more than a photo op.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/