Why does Microsoft have underwater data centers?
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- čas přidán 24. 10. 2021
- As everything transfers to the cloud, we will require a growing number of data centers. These servers should ideally be as close to their users as possible for ultra-fast access. That’s why Microsoft has decided to try installing data centers on the ocean floor.
They are used to giving rapid cloud services to coastal towns while also saving energy, which is a key goal for the company. Microsoft’s first test of the concept was Project Natick. Back in 2018, the company submerged the Northern Isles, a purpose-built data center, in the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
The location was ideal for this experiment due to its relatively cool waters and close access to a power grid that was sourced from solar and wind power.
The submerged data center was equipped with 12 racks, 864 servers, and 27.6 petabytes of storage, and also met Microsoft’s energy-saving and sustainability objectives.
How well did Project Natick go? What lessons did Microsoft learn from its implementation? How many more underwater data centers is the firm planning to build? What is the science, engineering, and technology that goes into creating one of these centers?
We answer all these questions and more in our video.
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Now that cloud is under water!
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Best comment of the CZcams History.
We should call it ... sea!
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It shud b "BUBBLE" now
Wow, I didn’t realise the UK was in the Pacific Ocean! That explains so much!!
What 😅
Uh
that is a freudian slip... the geographic of earth is not what you have been taught
Fascinating
Malvinas Island :v
1) I have to speed up the playback to make it sound normal speed
2) I wasn't aware Ireland was in the Pacific ocean
Latter people protest for "stop boiling sea water."
Normies wont stop
underwater volcano did it first
@@ldqbaz Lol good one
Actually it will effect the aquatic life in water due to radio emissions due to this it's even more dangerous for biodiversity.
@@Rishi6901 hello whatsapp scientist...the capsule is made of thick steel and iron and it wont let the radiation pass through
How can we trust that any of this is accurate when such a fundamental error like Orkney moving to the Pacific got through?
From cloud database to underwater database was quick evolution 😂
How do site reliability engineers work ?
Do they dive into the ocean on a regular day ?
No maintenance at all.....Only after a few years.....or if any severe breakdown occurs...
@@cck1496 That rarely is the case, in reality data centers are never empty.
You can almost always find some engineer shivering in some corner of the data center without a jacket doing some maintenance work or health check.
@Sean Embry Sounds like a fairy tale and would also make a great impression on the customer but the reality is that even aws has outages and data centers that go down inspite of all that redundancy and computing power.
Almost all cloud providers have a status page that show the status of which services are up and which are down.
There must be a reason why admins book mark the status page and use it to answer emails from their big bosses cause for them status page is like confirmation that SLA is breached or not for a service.
A data center without needing maintenance and simply relying on redundancy is still very impractical.
I like the idea that it's trying to reduce the electricity consumption that goes into cooling by being under water and supplemented with nitrogen for that extra boost in cooling but it's still an experiment or a POC at best.
Industry is far from having real world submerged data centers.
@@pandit-jee-bihar Thanks for sharing your valuable expertise. Keep it up.
@Sean Embry Good point. Out of band management makes sense.
It will effect aquatic life and biodiversity.
How does it interact with the biodiversity it's submerged in ? I mean you put a heating element in a cold environment and life will attract towards it to get heat from this source. Does that degrades the convection of heat from the data center ?
Not just 5hat but now to service them they need boats and divers
Imagine those data centers is leaking water...
Imagine a data center caught fire.
All the fishes will be electrocuted.
What about marine life, research should be conducted if there is any impact on the same
Cooling the data centre wont require much cost also less green footprints
I disagree with this setup for the following reason: a computer converts all its power to heat. This means it is in essence a heating device. It is more smart to use that heat to heat buildings than to use it to heat seawater. That said, a landbased datacenter that doesn't reuse its wasteheat is even worse. If we look from the perspective of water usage, the submerged datacentre has its merits, as there is no usage of drinking water.
Now Microsoft engineers should have diving certificate
What he says we already polluted the land, let do the same underwater.
well, underwater would guarantee cool room temperature which is semiconductor friendly. rather than solar and wind, maybe if Microsoft could do underwater current powerplant would be best
Likely in the event of war, subsea data centre's would be better shielded against radiation. These solutions seem more likely in preparation for nuclear fallout. The world's data and ultimately man kinds collective knowledge just before they die, would all be backed up for the world after.
Edit: If these solutions were actually efficient or increased profit in anyway they would be proliferating the business already. The inability to maintain the servers already tells us they're meaning to leave the servers unattended for long durations. The renewable energy sources used are discontinuous and unreliable at best which suggests the servers would be in a dormant state mostly. Also note most of the world's systems use Microsoft windows and so 'The Great Backup' would happen with a mere click of a button. There is more than meets the eye with what they're doing here and likely the governments around the world will be taking interest.
I know we have climate problems, but to relocate the Orkneys to the pacific is deep!!!
or... putting them in international waters lets them avoid those pesky privacy laws and data sharing restrictions...... Allowing them to effectively break laws they would subject to on land.
Could be 🤔
Yessss This.
Normally privacy laws for countries the business operate in protects the citizens of that country and therefore they would not be allowed to serve customers in said countries without massive fines
You also need to move Microsoft's headquarters to international waters.
as long as it's territorial waters of UK (22km from coastline) , UK laws apply as per UN conventions
What's so new if you make bigger waterproof pendrive ?
Such a smart and efficient idea. I wonder how they will deal with barnacles though.
Pacific ocean?Orkney Islands?
Just thinking the exact same thing. Scotland must have moved to the other side of the USA.
Checked the map definitely wrong ocean
i paused the video and actually scrolled down to find this comment ✌🤩
@@chrismaplethorpe6781 'tectonic shift'
@@rajbow1 is one big tectonic shift👍
How are channels like this only as big as they are?
It is protection from emp&solar activity possibly?
Deep water is a natural cooling system, portable data center but prone to the nature of the sea floor plus, maintenance cost will be super high...
Using water to preserve the integrity of a device, that was the genuis part, objects that get too hot, in colder climates and objects too cool in higher climate advantages.
Just install Air Locks for maintenance.
It's simply water cooled which could be done in a regular pool, leave the marine life as it is. Just water cool your existing hardware n avoid creating electrical interference and heat to aquatic life.
Is the power supply consistent across all seasons in such north?
Grid tied
How humidity is maintained inside deep water data centre?
What about warming of the water and melting of the ice.
Wait, so how they access that underwater data center?
Do they also run IO cable along the power cable?
probably, do you know there is an entire cable from usa to europe underwater? cables are just too good to be replaced.
@@suyashsingh9865 there’s actually several underwater cables that run from continent to continent. You can look it up for more detail.
@@RandoHandleSo, if they access more for purpose, how long they should repair for each can of servers? are they repair one of them per month, week or per date?
What if one of the live wires become loose ?👀
Didn't know Scotland was in the Pacific, carry on...
These data centers wouldn't be lifted up for any repairs or end of life from water again? Would such activities disturb the homes of aquatic life?
How far from costal cities these data centers be maintained?
How about underwater block chain?
What if there's a issues or something, it must be expensive to fix them
i have a doubt, won't the water living species be effected by such electronics?
Has that ever been a comcern ?
no they wont be affected
It`s great that idea, I alway think that there is not enything better than applying and using our tecnologies and even improving them with no damaging enviroment
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The cloud is under the sea
New archivement: Place piracy server on underwater cell.
Pirates would rather use P2P than servers.
I think that's the Atlantic Ocean guys.
not if ur americon!!
YoU dunno.
Cloud under the ocean..what an irony
Without watching the video, its for cooling and reliability
You missed the death of mammals in the sea
@@robo1989 Fishes.....Are not mammals.
@@darkushippotoxotai9536 that's what you too missed
@@robo1989 ???
@@darkushippotoxotai9536 watch the complete video raja
Hm...... In future, could they probably boil lots of sea water? Isn't it gonna impact on environment and earth itself?
Same thoughts
I think it will take a lot more than a few servers underwater to heat up the oceans significantly. Though the impact on marine ecosystems in the immediate surroundings should be closely monitored.
Intresting 👍🏻👍🏻
So cloud computing still holds its potential to evolve
Very Nice amazing 👌👍🏻
News to me, Scotland is on the Pacific Coast, actually it is on the Atlantic Coast.
Lets wait until cookie-cutter shark will flood it
Does it raise water temperature? I guess still better than burning fuel to run fans.
So will it be called marine computing instead from now on?
Negative net carbon lol. Wonder how they are going to replace plastic.
Absolutely..carbon isnt harmful..or at least lethal..
But plastic is.
I think it is more to due to reduction in cooling cost, not for the clients benefits.
FREE COOLING 🤔 could be a reason?
The Pacific ocean of the coast of Scotland, uh huh, right
RIP to data security!!!
Maybe they should make a "cloud" data center in space?
To help the ocean warm to make the global warming worst.
Mission Impossible coming soon.. Ethan cracking one open.
Oh wait they already did it.. No ?
No
I hope they made Windows this 'reliable' and 'efficient' lol. I wish this becomes the norm for data centers.
Why cant they create an artificial pool and submerge it in a closed environment instead of submerging it in the sea, which has lots of biodiversity ?
Great Amazon is having data centers on land and Microsoft is trying to maintain datacenter in sea next cloud provider will try to maintain datacenter in the sky😀
These are in the ocean to cool them to save money. These things kick off a lot of heat, and there are thousands of them. Hmm.
you know there are underwater volcanoes that are way too hot than these. if only you didn't skip school. you wouldn't find yourself asking stupid questions like these.
So my datalake here??
Мурманск? :)
Murmansk next? 😇
X86 processors heats up a lot. Its time to switch to more efficient ARM based processors.
BECAUSE THERES ENERGY WHERE THEY ARE GOING! SOMEONE BROUGHT STAR POWER/ENERGY THERE!
Skipping the middle man and warming the oceans directly haha
Will it still be called cloud?
Pacific huh!?
Ella famous company DC onnum, kadalil onnum alla😁. Ith Microsoft nte oru experiment aayrnnu. Kurach countries ith start cheytitund. But iniyum experiment vendi varum.
Please do a video about #savemullaperiyardam
They trained dolphins 🐬 to push CTRL-ALT- DEL
Nice
So to get faster internet connection I have to dive in pacific ocean
maybe the server is hot, so put it in the sea
The Orkney Islands are in the Atlantic, not the Pacific
If Tesla has done this then all comment section would be saying how revolutionary idea this is.
So true bro
*if Apple did it
Yes exactly what I was thinking
huh? I am commending this idea
Bro that’s the Atlantic Ocean! Not Pacific!
This is so 😎 cool
Ummm ... you may want to recheck your geography... the Orkney's are in the North Atlantic
Because water holds memory it's that simple
Ahh not for this application
Frozen 2
@@freshbakedclips4659 this is not frozen 2
@@ACommenterOnCZcams if it's not then explain almost all cables for internet are ran under the ocean why is that ?
@@bengettinit7317 Because continents are seperated by oceans that's why.
Discord should also use this weird technology.
No, its an extremly bad idea
Really innovative n eco-friendly
One Tsunami.. All gone.
"Condensed cloud computing"
and then power them with waves
Scotland in the pacific ocean? What other mistakes are in this video?
so faster? right?
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No bad Idea.
Better they contribute a part of income and profits to the conservation of Ocean, from which they are benefitting...
Umm,
Can't sharks or any heavy animal damage it??
Won’t it be difficult to guard that.? Terrorists or anyone with a scuba diving equipment would be able to blow it up
Pacific ocean. Are you serious 🤣
Microsoft expand their branch in Bikini Bottom.
Data centers are at risk of emp from the sun. Water helps to disorient magnetic fields.
Actually it wont save it from an intensive electromagnetic blast
Now Microsoft edge will be more fluid.