Microsoft Build Data Center Underwater
Electronic equipment seems to be impossible to work when exposed to water, but Microsoft, managed to build a data center in the sea.
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To keep the continuity data center is always awake, necessary physical infrastructure is smart with integrated monitoring systems. It is useful to monitor and prevent any threat that resulted in the death of devices in the data center. (Shutterstock.com) |
Electronic equipment seems impossible can work well when exposed to water. But one of the software giant initiated by Bill Gates, Microsoft, managed to build a data center in the sea.
Rack server that can accommodate a strength of about 300 PC was placed in a steel cylinder that meeting and diiturunkan at sea off central California. This trial was launched because the data center is currently located in a place that rarely inhabited, but unfortunately it was not efficient because Microsoft had to throw a lot of energy to cool the computer very much.
Not unexpectedly, the sea can solve the problem. Sea currents can generate enough energy to power the data processing under the sea. The sea bottom is cold enough to cool the computers inside the cylinder. In addition, because most people live near the ocean, allows for increased speed, which customers can access the information stored in the cloud computing Microsoft (Microsoft's Cloud).
This experiment was successfully carried out for 75 days longer than planned. Microsoft then would conduct experiments on the data center after being removed from the water. The next step is to look for the larger tube to accommodate four times the computing power to be tested back in the bottom of the sea.
Corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, Peter Lee said, the next experiment, the tube to accommodate the computer will be equipped with turbines to changing sea currents into electricity. Microsoft has not been able to pinpoint the exact time, because they still have to analyze the environmental impacts will occur.
Data centers built by Microsoft derived from recycled materials, and they claimed the emissions produced would be much less than if the data center is built on the mainland. Lee also believes that data center was built under the sea can replace the work of construction into manufacturing jobs.
(Source: CNN via Digest Online)
