Microsoft Plumbs Ocean’s Depths to Test Underwater Data Center (Published 2016)

Ben Cutler, left, and Norman Whitaker, both of Microsoft Research, with the “Leona Philpot,” a prototype underwater data center, at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash.Credit...Matt Lutton for The New York Times REDMOND, Wash. — Taking a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centers may be under the sea. Microsoft has tested a prototype of a self-contai