SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Monday revealed that as the world turns to computing power in the cloud it is working to put datacenters under water.
Researchers working on “Project Natick” tested a prototype vessel on the ocean floor about a kilometer off the US Pacific Coast for about four months last year.
The vessel was named after a “Leona Philpot” character in popular Xbox video game franchise ‘Halo.’
“The bottom line is that in one day this thing was deployed, hooked up and running,” Microsoft Research NExT special projects leader Norm Whitaker said in a post at the company’s website.
“A wild ocean adventure turned out to be a regular day at the office.”
A diver went down monthly to check on the vessel, otherwise the research team remained in contact remotely.
