Microsoft Orkney Datacentre @ Sea

Amazing innovation, Microsoft has dropped a data centre in the sea off Orkney to understand whether they can achieve greater cooling efficiencies and its feasibility over traditional data centre deployments.

• Microsoft sunk the 40-foot long vessel off the coast of Orkney, a group of islands located off Scotland.
• The data center contains 12 racks of computers with a total of 864 servers.
• Microsoft said it can hold data and process information for up to five years without maintenance.