Ping along: What makes Microsoft s data centres tick
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The Northern Isles data centre being retrieved from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, with a coat of algae, barnacles and sea anemones growing on it during its two-year deployment.
One of the key aspects of Microsoft’s highly-secure, intricately-designed data centres is its contribution to the company’s sustainability goals, an aim of which is to become carbon-negative by 2030.
Engineers inspecting the inside of a two-phase immersion cooling tank at a Microsoft data centre.
Microsoft is also using Azure Orbital as a ground station as-a-service that provides communication and control of a satellite.
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It’s even bigger than that time its researchers sunk a submarine-like data center in the ocean.
It’s running production workloads. But the rack of servers submerged in engineered fluid inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Washington, is still somewhat of a science project, similar in its purpose to Project Natick, the hermetically sealed computer-filled capsule the company’s R&D scientists had running on the ocean floor off the shores of Orkney Islands, in Scotland.
Like Natick, running real production software on a few dozen servers inside a tub of low-boiling-point fluid in Quincy is a way to answer an initial set of basic questions before deploying at a larger scale to test for the design’s impact on reliability.