Microsoft withdraws the "Store of Secrets" from the depths of the ocean

 Microsoft withdraws the "Store of Secrets" from the depths of the ocean

After about a year and a half, the American company "Microsoft" withdrew its second data center from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Scotland.

The famous technology company installed a data center about 36 meters underwater in the spring of 2018, and called it "Project Natick" (Project Natick).

"Microsoft" hopes that placing computers in the ocean will be a way to save data in the future, as these centers are designed with cooling systems that exploit abundant water, and operate with renewable energy.

This is the second data center that Microsoft has sent to the deep sea. The first phase was in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and that center remained underwater between August and November 2016.

"We were very pleased with how clean the data center was (when it was pulled out of the water)," said Spencer Fowers, a key member of the technical staff of the Microsoft Special Projects Research Group, knowing that the retrieval process took one day, and he started using it immediately to review data.

Why is it under water? Microsoft assumes that the lack of exposure to oxygen makes the center less susceptible to corrosion, and that its presence under water greatly avoids shocks, making the data center more reliable than centers on the ground.

In contrast to the problem of heat on the ground, which adds a lot of energy requirements to data centers, self-cooling underwater makes the work of the data center more efficient.

In this regard, Ben Cutler, project manager in the Special Research Group, said: "Our failure rate in water is one to eight of what we see on the ground," according to the American CNN news network