The US software and technology giant, Microsoft, has announced that a huge offshore data center was created near Scottish Orkney Island.
The data center is 40 meters long and is built as a submarine that can accommodate 864 server computers.
The center was mounted and tested in France and then transported to Scotland where it was installed on a triangular silicon base to place it on the seabed, according to DPA.
Microsoft said the center could work for 5 consecutive years without maintenance.
At the same time, it can rely on natural cooling to run these servers while under sea, while server computers found in conventional data centers on Earth consume large amounts of power to drive their cooling devices.
These deep sea centers are also designed to provide cloud computing services to coastal cities that are often affected by poor efficiency of high-speed internet.
There is also no possibility to repair any server computer in this offshore center, bu experts hope the degree of degradation of these devices will be lower than in conventional units on the earth's surface.
