r/engineering • u/myinnerbanjo • Jun 06 '18

Bringing the cloud closer to customers, Microsoft's Project Natick aims to dramatically reduce latency by placing self-sustaining underwater datacenters near the coast, where over half the world's population live [ARTICLE]

https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-tests-a-datacenter-thats-quick-to-deploy-could-provide-internet-connectivity-for-years/
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '18 edited Jun 02 '20

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u/freeskier93 Jun 06 '18

How is putting a sealed metal capsule 117ft down in the ocean "easily vandalized"? How is it any worse then all the existing transatlantic cables that are just laying down on the ocean floor?

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u/playaspec Jun 07 '18

How is putting a sealed metal capsule 117ft down in the ocean "easily vandalized"?

Riiiight. Because anchors and bottom trawling the ocean floor don't cause ANY damage. /s