Project NatickDatacentres Under Sea

Ø Project Natick is a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter.

Ø The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor approximately one kilometer off the Pacific coast of the United States from August to November of 2015.

Ø Project Natick reflects Microsoft’s ongoing quest for cloud datacenter solutions that offer rapid provisioning, lower costs, high responsiveness, and are more environmentally sustainable.

What is Project Natick?

Ø Cloud computing continues to grow in importance, both as a driver of economic growth and as a consumer of global resources.

Ø Project Natick is focused on a cloud future that can help better serve customers in areas which are near large bodies of water (where nearly 50% of society resides).

Ø The vision of operating containerized datacenters offshore near major population centers anticipates a highly interactive future requiring data resources located close to users.

Ø Deepwater deployment offers ready access to cooling, renewable power sources, and a controlled environment.

Why Project Natick?

Ø Natick datacenters are envisioned to be fully recycled. Made from recycled material which in turn is recycled at the end of life of the datacenter.

Ø A Natick datacenter co-located with offshore renewable energy sources could be truly zero emission: no waste products, whether due to the power generation, computers, or human maintainers are emitted into the environment.

Ø With the end of Moore’s Law, the cadence at which servers are refreshed with new and improved hardware in the datacenter is likely to slow significantly.

Ø Natick datacenters consume no water for cooling or any other purpose.

Environmental Impact

Ø Project Natick is currently at the research stage. It’s still early days in

evaluating whether this concept could be adopted by Microsoft and other

cloud service providers.

When it will be available?

Ø A Natick datacenter deployment is intended to last up to 5 years, which is

the anticipated lifespan of the computers contained within.

Ø After each 5-year deployment cycle, the datacenter would be retrieved,

reloaded with new computers, and redeployed.

Ø The target lifespan of a Natick datacenter is at least 20 years. After that, the

datacenter is designed to be retrieved and recycled.

Lifespan of Datacenter

Ø Natick is a codename and carries no special meaning. It is a town in

Massachusetts(USA).

What does the name ‘Natick’ mean?

Some Shots!

Ø natick.research.microsoft.com

Ø news.microsoft.com

Ø www.pcworld.com

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