Deep water deployment offers ready access to cooling, renewable power sources, and a controlled environment.
Microsoft isnt running any Web services, like Office 365, through data center infrastructure inside of these capsules.
The Redmond-based company foresees these capsules which are fully recyclable typically remaining underwater for five years at a time.
But the servers, storage, and networking equipment have got to live somewhere.
One might think putting data centers in an ocean might have environmental repercussions.
But Microsoft is indicating that nothing like that happened in the initial experiment.
Now Microsoft is looking to advance the research by building larger capsules.
source: www.techworm.net
