Microsoft's Project Natick at the launch site in the city of Stromness on Orkney Island, Scotland on Sunday May 27, 2018. (Photography by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures)

Natick

Researching the feasibility of subsea datacenters powered by offshore renewable energy

Established in 2015, Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide. We did so by designing, building, and deploying our own prototype subsea datacenter in the ocean, all in about a year.

In phase two we developed a datacenter four times the size of phase 1, with over 36 times the compute power!  It was deployed in June 2018 at the European Marine Energy Center off the coast of Orkney, UK.

See the full details on our complete site: http://natick.research.microsoft.com (opens in new tab)