Microsoft is committed to renewables and demonstrates it by submerging its new data center that will operate for 5 years

864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. These are the tremendous figures hidden in the new data center that Microsoft is going to use and which is known as Project Natick. So far we find heart attack numbers but not surprising. And it is that the face of astonishment remains when we know that this data center is located 35.6 meters under the sea.

Submerged under dozens of meters of water for five years This is how the system that the Redmond-based company has installed in the bed will work of the Scotia Sea.A data center that stands out for being a bet that serves to claim the use of renewable energies.

Bet on renewables

Being Bill Gates a well-known philanthropist, defender of our planet at all costs, it is not surprising that Microsoft follows the guidelines of what was his alma mater. And they put it into practice with this data center that located in the always busy North Sea, will use the sea currents to cool the system The energy used to running it will come from renewable energy generated on the Orkney Islands.

The reason is well known. These data centers consume a very high amount of energy especially to cool the equipment. Companies often install them in climates that are as cold as possible to minimize cooling needs. We have even seen how some companies, Apple, opt for self-sufficiency.

On the one hand, it is about saving on the electricity bill and incidentally, which should always be the first reason, helping to take care of the environmentAnd at Microsoft they are not new to this, because it is not for nothing that they already carried out a similar test in 2015. They submerged a data center in front of California for five months.

The current data center includes 12 racks with 864 servers with a total of 27.6 petabytes of storage. A huge amount of space that could be used to store, for example, up to 5 million movies.

The first year in which the company will control in detail all the parameters and the possible environmental impact will be key and if the results obtained are favourable, it can open a path in the commitment to this type of facility.

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