Microsoft sinks casually drops data centre into the North Sea

Microsoft’s Project Natick is entering into its second phase of development, and actually sinking a data centre 117 feet into the North Sea, a couple of miles off the coast of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
It certainly is a novel idea, and while it does sound like a bit of a PR gambit, there is some sound logic. Its small enough to manufacture and deploy pretty quickly, low temperatures at the seabed reduce cooling bills, around half the world’s population live within 120 miles of