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Why Microsoft left dozens of servers on the ocean floor for two years

Microsoft wrapped up Phase 2 of Project Natick, its plan to test the viability of underwater data centers. We spoke with its project leads about what they found.

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  1. Bondan D Prasetyo

    December 22, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    😬

  2. Aqil Asyraf

    December 22, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    They really went from storing data in the cloud to storing data in the water

  3. JunkionMarnot2005

    December 22, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    I mean…..aren’t internet cables down there?

  4. JunkionMarnot2005

    December 22, 2020 at 4:08 pm

    I can see it now: Challenger Deep! Now with 6G & WiFi 8!

  5. Dubbin Nutt

    December 22, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    So they are going to make the oceans even hotter now. The oceans are already heating up and encountering environmental problems. Can’t think of a worse idea.

    • Asashi Gaming

      December 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm

      It was stated in the video that it doesnt affect the water temperature and sealife used it to their advantage

    • Asashi Gaming

      December 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm

      Watch the video first karen

  6. Pat

    December 22, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    Is this a way of protecting the servers from EMPs? (electromagnetic pulse)
    I have a feeling that is actually what they’re looking at.

  7. Science Compliance

    December 22, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    I think those servers are cool. Ha! Get it?

  8. Serge at Virally

    December 22, 2020 at 4:30 pm

    ok Microsoft stop heating our oceans!

  9. Daniel Zaidan

    December 22, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    throughout the video i could only think of the thermal pollution that this system may cause

    • Asashi Gaming

      December 22, 2020 at 5:30 pm

      It was stated in the video that it didnt affect the ocean temperature lol

    • ErilynOfAnachronos

      December 22, 2020 at 6:37 pm

      Imagine 1 million of these datacenters, each consuming 1 million Watt. It would take them ~177 years to heat all seawater on earth 0.001 Kelvin.
      Assuming equal distribution of the generated heat.

  10. soiceyboy33

    December 22, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    Why not put them on top of mountain peaks for easier access? You’d have to pull up the entire data center to service it, where as on a mountain, you can service it without bringing the whole thing down.

    • Asashi Gaming

      December 22, 2020 at 5:36 pm

      Imagine if it rains, a landslide, or a earthquake. Putting it on the ocean is way safer and more colder

  11. Kailen Bittner

    December 22, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    Underwater data centers for water cooled data centers duh.

  12. Robert Tinsley

    December 22, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    Yes great

  13. VOLT GAMING

    December 22, 2020 at 5:53 pm

    There is no funny comments yet.

  14. Gerardo Gomez

    December 22, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    I support. 👉🏽

  15. Meathook's Chronicles

    December 22, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    Jus do it, do it…do it!😆 I luv all the planning and thought that is going into this.

  16. Rob Dark

    December 22, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    117ft 😁 love the Masterchief reference they do with everything 😜

  17. Patrick T

    December 22, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    Artificially white teeth look silly and are distracting. People need to be less vain.

  18. bunnylovah

    December 22, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    Will That Heat Up Our Oceans. So Much Of The theory of Global Warming. lol

  19. Fulton Barrons

    December 22, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    I wonder how safe it is from Hacking, or from blowing it up?

  20. Michael Griffiths

    December 22, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    This is a great initiative. Good use of natural resources.
    The process needs lots more tests so as to mature in into a viable solution.

    When it’s matured, Apple will ‘invent’ it and call it ‘Apple Water’

  21. Eduardo Espericueta

    December 22, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    “There wasn’t a significant change.” Yea right. How big of an impact will thousands of these have on oceans that are already warming?

  22. rudeboys28712

    December 22, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    getting ready for the noah flood againg

  23. ariff zkfly

    December 22, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    Here comes the worsen of global warming

  24. Conrad Genio

    December 23, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Space is cold too

  25. Andre P

    December 23, 2020 at 12:56 am

    Or just use Apple M1 chips… or other thermal efficient designs…

  26. phantimlord69

    December 23, 2020 at 2:37 am

    Your top shelf is upside down.

  27. phunnyfill

    December 23, 2020 at 4:41 am

    Nobody: “That all sounds great, but what about the environmental impact?!!!”

    • Alan

      December 23, 2020 at 3:29 pm

      That was my first question @ 1:27 actually.

  28. esbi1972

    December 23, 2020 at 5:11 am

    Would like to see if it works near the equator.

  29. Eyjafjallajokull

    December 23, 2020 at 7:47 am

    Russian torpedo :🚀😱

  30. Ram Annepu

    December 23, 2020 at 10:07 am

    they could just use m1 processors

  31. Zachary Wheat

    December 23, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    I think that if this process could become scalable, it would provide many technical benefits, as well as solving the problem of taking up room on land for data centers.

  32. mike bronson

    December 23, 2020 at 3:42 pm

    This is how we can show the world that the United States can make peace far better then we can make war. One apple pie at a time. My Christmas wish? Peace on earth, good will towards all.

  33. Sam P

    December 23, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    What’s this stupid idea to worm up the ocean water 🌊 💧 🤔 don’t we have enuff problems in the world let’s create more isseus.

  34. ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴍʀ. ɪꜱᴀɪᴀʜ ᴅᴇʀɪɴɢᴇʀ;

    December 23, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    Seagate be like _wait a minute… how did you came up with this idea exactly?_

  35. Orin Levy

    December 23, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    This really feels like a ‘no-brainer’ type of idea. We’ve had active cables traversing oceans for decades now so. we know that works. It’s obvious that cold moving water dissipates heat which radically reduces the operational costs of airconditioning and commercial space. The remaining question was the operability of the servers and, as was pointed out in the video, Moore’s law. I don’t think Moore’s Law is completely dead. The pace of innovation is still incredibly fast. The question regarding undersea data centers is if the technology that is placed in the ocean will still be able to handle the type of traffic created just a few short years later.

  36. Cynthia Cantrell

    December 23, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    Linux and Chill.

  37. Kenneth June Benedicto

    December 24, 2020 at 12:03 am

    If you use ocean water for cooling, aren’t you contributing to the warm ocean temperature – contributing to the green house effect?

  38. charles potts

    December 24, 2020 at 12:56 am

    Oh Man REALLY? I can Environmental Activists crying “bloody murder” now Big Tech is polluting the water with data centers! Nothing is off limits these days! I guess it’s Okay to put one in the Bermuda Triangle? LOL! Great video, love to see companies innovating!

  39. Alberto Portugal

    December 24, 2020 at 1:00 am

    That seal is a good boye

  40. Lance

    December 24, 2020 at 1:42 am

    direct contribution to global warming by heating the oceans? lol

    • Neojhun

      December 27, 2020 at 5:55 pm

      Literally but also Negligible. The amount of heat a Data Centre like that creates vs the volume of flowing sea water it is in. Is not enough to have a noticeable impact. That much water especially flowing can take away a crazy amount of heat.

  41. Austin Thomas

    December 24, 2020 at 1:44 am

    Couldn’t you essentially do the same thing with an underground warehouse filled with vacuumed sealed tubes with the nitrogen to house the servers? I don’t see why under water makes a difference. Maybe Microsoft has different intentions for being in the ocean?..

  42. Zyrel Lee

    December 24, 2020 at 5:23 am

    azure

  43. Sydnay BENDER

    December 24, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    Fascinating really

  44. G W

    December 24, 2020 at 1:48 pm

    What will 1000 in one area do to the fishes and other sea life ? You are heating up the water around them

  45. Chris Ramirez

    December 24, 2020 at 4:34 pm

    His teeth are brighter than my future.

  46. Tejas N

    December 24, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    moving the cloud under water 🤣

  47. Orville Mendonca

    December 24, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    What if aquaman steals all the data

  48. S124434

    December 24, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    Could they possibly build a data centre under water, but possibly build it in a way that technicians could possibly easily access it, so if maintenance is possibly required they can just send someone down there to fix it, possibly. I feel.

  49. Jd Dm

    December 25, 2020 at 3:00 am

    Comments are so lame when they aren’t full of hate after 2020.

  50. Mark Chrome

    December 25, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    Next up underwater volcano powered factories

  51. EyesOfByes

    December 26, 2020 at 3:34 am

    This is the future

  52. Elijah Hayes

    December 26, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    What If someone takes it out and steals it before microsoft can get to it?

  53. Patrick Smart

    December 26, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    Can’t stand this voice

  54. MasterChief4817

    December 26, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    This is a horrible idea.

  55. chip renner

    December 26, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    lets make the oceans warmer…jeeeeeeez!

  56. Ritchie Besas

    December 26, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    im getting neck cramps watching this

  57. Thomas Hillard

    December 27, 2020 at 12:29 am

    Wouldn’t that just warm up the ocean overtime 1:37

    • John J

      December 27, 2020 at 6:10 am

      It would have less of an effect than on land where it would require more energy to cool it, and release less greenhouse gasses, which is the entire idea behind this project. So technically moving servers to water would help slow climate change and global warming

  58. Lunafreya Fleuret

    December 27, 2020 at 5:02 am

    now they want all living things to be attached to a screen , even fish

  59. Tsyahill T

    December 27, 2020 at 7:33 am

    This could be the next hacking scene in mission impossible movies.

  60. Oh Yicong

    December 27, 2020 at 8:44 am

    The start of an underwater city – Aquaman

  61. Mikhael Rachmaninov

    December 27, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    They try to boil the sea water 😱

  62. Diomer Ortiz

    December 27, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Love how these bots at CNET just accept a massive corporation saying “don’t worry, we monitored the water temp and you can trust us not to warm the water”

    • Diomer Ortiz

      December 27, 2020 at 6:01 pm

      @Neojhun This is one company doing this. “Science” doesn’t account for hundreds of thousands of these…

    • Neojhun

      December 27, 2020 at 6:28 pm

      @Diomer Ortiz FAIL, as long M$ does not make it much more dense. Such Low Density vs Volume of Sea Water will have negligible effect regardless the Number of Units. You fail at basic logic.

    • Diomer Ortiz

      December 27, 2020 at 6:39 pm

      @Neojhun you fail at having a decent conversation without insulting someone.

    • Neojhun

      December 27, 2020 at 7:03 pm

      @Diomer Ortiz I gave you numbers and technical explanations. You still ignored them. FAIL is just accurate description of your behavior.

    • Diomer Ortiz

      December 27, 2020 at 7:18 pm

      @Neojhun keep it going scientist

  63. hkr joy

    December 27, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    Yeah!! More destruction of sea coast and coral reefs….

  64. akhil kadway

    December 28, 2020 at 3:00 am

    So next time there is a maintenance issue with the servers, we need to call the Navy Seals.

  65. Jake Collins

    December 28, 2020 at 8:21 am

    I feel like no one has asking the real question here.. how do they connect it to power underwater? 😂

    • Daniel Mcshane

      December 28, 2020 at 12:26 pm

      Ummmm with a power cable? We already have massive underwater cabling under the Pacific Ocean – this really isn’t that new

  66. Daniel Mcshane

    December 28, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    Epic, but sounds expensive

  67. Nicholas C Maingot

    December 28, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    Wow, those teeth are distracting

  68. -Wickie -

    December 28, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    Can we put twitter in the sewer ?

    My bad, its already there.

  69. mwmentor

    December 29, 2020 at 1:30 am

    Interesting idea, but I don’t think that it will take off. The reason that I think that is because the risk of damage from fishing, or other human activity or natural phenomena is quite high… which could become expensive to fix.

  70. Dun

    December 29, 2020 at 2:52 am

    Man, just intergrades this to an offshore wind turbine.

  71. Yogi

    December 29, 2020 at 7:24 am

    As technology advances and moving over the limitation of silicon base computation, we should be using less bulk hardware….

  72. OTAK OH

    December 29, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    Well clouds come from water 🤷🏻‍♀️

  73. dheo fugado

    December 29, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    The heat will surely affect those ice bergs of the poles. Dafuck

  74. Adriel Sjahfiedin

    December 29, 2020 at 3:32 pm

    Directly heating up the ocean XD

  75. Gopinath Nath

    December 29, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    Apple arm processor will changes the data centers

  76. J Shepin

    December 29, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    or you just build a datacenter next to the ocean and pump the cold water

  77. Kueny Thiluang

    December 29, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    Seals are so photogenic 😂

  78. gazza thomas

    December 30, 2020 at 12:54 am

    Faultless mouthful of teeth

  79. gazza thomas

    December 30, 2020 at 12:56 am

    Facebook in a shitcan then

  80. Ivan Lee

    December 30, 2020 at 5:56 am

    Those who have concern of environmental impact of servers warming up the sea, have no issue with the sun shining onto the planet with immense heat, fml.

  81. husai ni

    December 30, 2020 at 6:31 am

    Because it’s cold

  82. Tuhin Mondal

    December 30, 2020 at 10:49 am

    Microsoft is hiding their homework folder in there so no can physically get access to homework folder

  83. Retroflection

    December 30, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    At first, I thought this was a very different and inefficient way of wiping data from old servers

  84. Tonic Shondlani

    December 30, 2020 at 2:06 pm

    Well Apple M1 is proving you wrong about computer growth speed

    • Thea Blanca

      December 30, 2020 at 10:05 pm

      Yes, it’s a rather amazing little thing but at the same time you’re very limited. Like, you’re stuck with the ram that’s already on the board etc. And being ARM, apps have to be adapted. yes, there’s a bridge in it as well so it can run x86 code. But, it didn’t break moores law. It wasn’t such an “invention”.

  85. RD Z

    December 30, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    Tube should be radiation free

  86. mr pratster

    December 30, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    You know all components in that tube. Servers generate energy in the form of heat. In our data center, we generally use the 6000 watts per rack rule. That’s a lot of heat being dissipated into the ocean surroundings. While it’s a drop in the bucket, we are contributing to the ocean warming. I guess either way, we are expecting sea level rises, as long as there are needs to have data centers. Perhaps move away from Intel based chip to ARM based will really help.

  87. Shiva Kumar

    December 30, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    Why Not Microsoft put their servers in antartica… its more cool then ocean

  88. experiment

    December 30, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    Is toothpaste being advertised here?

  89. Roberta Gallant

    December 30, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Why did Microsoft leave dozens of servers on the ocean floor for two years? I am curious!

  90. F.B.I.

    December 30, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    “Did you back up your data to the ocean?”

  91. Bizybee

    December 30, 2020 at 11:49 pm

    100%

  92. Matthew Lunnon

    December 31, 2020 at 12:20 am

    Also, useful protection from a CME.

  93. Michael D

    December 31, 2020 at 12:39 am

    Under water bitcoin mining

  94. illuminate1111

    December 31, 2020 at 6:44 am

    Hilary Clinton hid her emails in one of those servers

  95. Mercy L N

    December 31, 2020 at 7:20 am

    Gosh! He calls them ‘they?’ Whose they?😶

  96. Daniel Bellon

    December 31, 2020 at 7:52 am

    Space 🌌 is Cold two 💕👍💚

  97. Brabus 76

    December 31, 2020 at 8:22 am

    The cobalt for megatron!!

  98. Prabhav Shukla

    December 31, 2020 at 8:44 am

    Be back here in 20yrs, when we’ll have ocean floor warming and related biodiversity destruction.

  99. WILFRED LOVE Hometheater

    December 31, 2020 at 11:54 am

    thats cool

  100. Badru Din

    December 31, 2020 at 2:49 pm

    Why do people think 40m steel tubes are capable of heating up an ocean that covers 70% of the Earth’s surface 😂. Do a lil research about specific Heat.

    • Ron Pedersen

      December 31, 2020 at 6:46 pm

      Good point, show how most people have no idea of the scale of the planet but bring this up gives them eco virtue points they can brag about on social media.

  101. Jack Currence

    December 31, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    I think it’s a great idea. Something else that might have contributed to the lower failure rate of the underwater servers is the lack (or seriously reduced amount) of dust. No matter how well a data center filters the air, every deployed server I’ve ever opened has had dust on the fan blades, heat sinks, etc…, which can only lower their efficiency.

  102. Detective Unknown

    December 31, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    Imagine, all servers in the water, some diving and opening it an boom a fraction of the country can’t get into microsoft websites. I wonder what would happen of another country got ahold of it lol

  103. Steve Harisson

    December 31, 2020 at 3:15 pm

    Now wonder my data a bit watery

  104. deemon710

    December 31, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    It sounds like a good step to take. I’d just like some big brained people contemplate the effect of scaling up and warming our oceans in exchange for moving infrastructure off land.

  105. pilotintraining18ify

    December 31, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    Morse Law still applies because we are at the end fringes of the predicted theoretical plateau. Once you get transistors closer to the atomic scale(which we are close to), you can’t make them any smaller. It is incorrect wording to say Moores’s law doesn’t apply! Since this reduction was calculated

  106. Jan Bernardo

    December 31, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    It’s free real estate.

  107. Spooky

    December 31, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    Me diving in the sea

    also me wassup fish how you doing?

    the fish: yo wassup Spooky i know you’re password

  108. Lt. T

    December 31, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Global warming alert: Microsoft has found a new way to destroy earth! Heating up the ocean!

  109. Ron Pedersen

    December 31, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    They did not mention the political advantages. They can put a data center close to a nation but in international waters. This frees them from political turmoil, civil wars, taxes, and so on.

  110. Goo World

    December 31, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    I guess you can’t call it “The Cloud” anymore … back your data up to “The Ocean” 💨

  111. Michal Vrana

    December 31, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    yeah, I know its not much, but how about we dont heat our oceans any more?

  112. Sahan Randika

    December 31, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    Next skill set required to become a network engineer: Diving 🙂

  113. Andrew Frey

    December 31, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    With all that extra heat being directly dumped into the ocean, we’ll be able to start blaming Microsoft for increased hurricanes.

  114. Robert Lee

    December 31, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    CNET could ya do a full informative video on CableLabs 10G wired Internet Speeds of 10 Gigabits Upstream and 6 Gigabits Downstream. Is it true? If so when will it roll out and what ISPs will provide it and will the small ISPs die out due to the high costs of upgrading their infrastructure. So will the major ISPs will RAISE their FEES? Will we have to upgrade our Modems, Routers, and CAT6/CAT6E/CAT7?

  115. infa008

    December 31, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Sounds like an excellent plan. No fighting or paying for land rights. Thermal management and atmospheric controls. Create a plug and play form factor and they can easily be replaced and updated.

  116. Harira Normal

    December 31, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    aws: region: Pacific Ocean-east 4
    Equinix-OC1 datacenter

  117. Casey

    January 1, 2021 at 12:10 am

    What about increasing water temperature…

  118. PatriotJon

    January 1, 2021 at 1:05 am

    Horse Huey. The ONLY reason for putting it there, is to keep YOU from ever being able to get to it.

  119. Leo Sheppard

    January 1, 2021 at 5:53 pm

    I like 👍 this guys teeth! Need the phone 📲 number for that team of dentists.

  120. Gamer007

    January 1, 2021 at 5:58 pm

    So increase water levels to flood coasts by filling ocean with volume of computers & heating oceans to increase melting ice.

  121. izzzzzz6

    January 1, 2021 at 6:11 pm

    Warming the oceans. Just what we need right now. lol

  122. Scott Rothman

    January 1, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    What about Design X Building data canals or channels. Then you’ll be able to conduct analysis on the input and output water temperatures more efficiently. Just a thought

  123. Ian Clark

    January 1, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    It does make sense, but even better would be if they could lower the actual energy usage of datacentres not just the energy used for cooling.

    • Lyle Stavast

      January 1, 2021 at 9:59 pm

      every chip designer out there working to run at fewer watts…

  124. Nick Brouwer

    January 1, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    Why heat up the water even more can we solve global warming first

  125. Aravindh M

    January 1, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    What happens when we need to swap a disk?

    • Lyle Stavast

      January 1, 2021 at 9:58 pm

      you don’t. you throttle the problem server off and work elsewhere. You’d configure to replicate data across multiple storage options anyway and shift it around to some open space and keep truckin’… You pull the whole unit out to do major upgrades in it as required. I’ve had servers that went $5 years with never rebooting, had storage that you never knew which drive the data was on anyway – one could fail and you’d just add a spare drive already racked up to be active.

  126. Native2458

    January 1, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    It wouldn’t be called the cloud anymore?!

  127. Jack Blacklense

    January 1, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    Warming the oceans now?

  128. Apollo Creed

    January 1, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    I’m a bit of an expert on data centers. I’m not an engineer or an architect but I do deal with them from dozens of different companies every single day and I can wholeheartedly assure you this is a much MUCH better way going forward.
    Modern data centers are a massive waste of land energy and resources and they’re just plain ugly to be honest. I’ve seen them ruin the look of huge sections of counties in Virginia. I hope this works out.

  129. Azan Ali

    January 1, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    Water Cooling taken too seriously 😂

  130. Isosta

    January 1, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    “moores law doesn’t really apply anymore” yea to transistors, when quantum stuff becomes widely used you’re likely gonna face the same issue of rapid advancement again

  131. philip dias

    January 1, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    Use heat pipes and heat pumps to keep the servers up top and dumb the heat down into the sea.

  132. The Narrow Road

    January 1, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    Data from the land evaporated to Cloud data could not bear the heat ..Came down as underwater data …cycle goes on…Nature.

  133. Lyle Stavast

    January 1, 2021 at 9:51 pm

    As you drive through the country in many places, you’ll see metal cans about 16″ in diameter on fencepost mounts – some are white, others are brushed aluminum looking. Those hold line cards for phone lines. They’re clever because the cards are mounted inside on edge in a radiator – hub and spoke sort of configuration and touch the outside edge – that’s to conduct away heat that comes from the electronics that repeat your call data moving through. They are passively cooled, and are really reliable. I’ve managed a classic data center and the A/C cost were really high… but combining some hardware design to conduct their heat to the mounting brackets more directly, they could do some clever things in rejecting that sort of heat to whatever water bay they’re in… For general computing servers racked as shown, they’re probably really wasting a lot of space that purpose built servers could use, magnifying how much compute/storage could fit inside… Talk AI specific hardware and GPUs along with CPUs, it seems a great option. There’s really no issue managing servers in a contained device like that – you have cabling to allow you to be “local” on a server through a managment lan anyway… Cool stuff – maybe someone can position some in areas to encourage fish farming or something too – or tap the warmed water around it as part of on-shore zone district cooling/heating…

  134. Kim Dahyun

    January 1, 2021 at 10:03 pm

    they took water cooling to new heights, or in this case, depths.

  135. Michael Horton

    January 1, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    And then Apple release the M1 faster, cooler, less power

  136. Cedric Bauer

    January 1, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    Everyone : The ice is melting 😱
    Microsoft: 🤫

    • Ricky Hall

      January 2, 2021 at 12:44 am

      Hmm, but using a traditional temperature controlled system uses far more energy, which not only in itself generates heat, but the energy generation causes co2 in one regard or another.

  137. Johannes Wipper

    January 1, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    I have one point: if more companies start to use underwater data centres eventually they won’t bother to fish them out when they don’t use/need them anymore.

  138. chromebomb

    January 1, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    i like this

  139. Ricky Hall

    January 2, 2021 at 12:37 am

    The angle of his camera is odd for me. For some reason it seems to distort his face, at least for me. And his large and rounded upper teeth are accentuated with that upward angle.

  140. Jerry Firebaugh

    January 2, 2021 at 12:56 am

    Sounds like it would be trivially easy to knock an entire data center offline by puncturing the hull.

  141. Everything I like

    January 2, 2021 at 1:00 am

    Elon: store my data in space. 😎

  142. Charalampos Andrikopoulos

    January 2, 2021 at 1:04 am

    What happens if someone steel the server is there a system that prevents steeling or the thief’s have all of our data what about that section have they thought that before putting our data down there?

  143. asimo

    January 2, 2021 at 1:11 am

    It’s feasible if the servers are only used for non sensitive data purposes for obvious security reasons

  144. Ruirodtube

    January 2, 2021 at 6:43 pm

    Underwater data centers… genius!
    Land cost
    Heat dissipation
    Security

    Genius!

  145. Lanchester Naanyane

    January 2, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    Why did you guys point out the teeth? It’s all I can see now. He’s got a bright smile there😂😂😂😂

  146. Pillowbottom

    January 2, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    Nice way to warm and change the ocean ecosystem 👍

  147. Sam

    January 2, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    Who on earth proof read this script.

    Almost half the world lives within 120miles off of a coast which means data has a shorter distance to travel?

    No.

    It means at least for half the world data has to travel 120miles to get to the datacenter…

  148. m mm

    January 2, 2021 at 7:52 pm

    now marine biologists are going to be turning into tech workers. lol

  149. Mark J

    January 2, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    I would be concerned about the security from a state actor. Good idea though.

  150. Kris Holt

    January 2, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    More importantly, how do these data centers combat potential hacking to their umbilical cords back to land? The US, Russians, and certainly other militaries with developed submarine programs have been hacking each other’s under sea comms for decades largely unnoticed.

  151. juan granados

    January 2, 2021 at 8:43 pm

    year that and also the nordic data center that wors as central hot ac in the winter for a village!

  152. Algrim the Strong

    January 2, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    Really? Weirdos worrying about the “EXCESS HEAT” dumped into the ocean by a steel server tube? 🤔🙄

  153. Mark C

    January 2, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    Let’s put these massive heat sinks into the already rapidly warming ocean and expect nothing bad to happen.

  154. Zee

    January 2, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    soon they’ll fill up oceans with data centres and contribute to the already warming up of oceans and affecting ecological systems

  155. Sidwirb

    January 2, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    The problem I could see would be related to that failure rate. It’s 8 times lower, but that means it still isn’t zero. So if something breaks (which they still will) there’s no really easy way to replace or fix components

  156. Michael Horner

    January 2, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    Hillary called…..she wants her server back !

  157. karma tam

    January 2, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    What’s
    Next
    Baby
    Diapers?

  158. John P

    January 2, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT???

  159. Scotty B

    January 2, 2021 at 10:54 pm

    Okay 1 of these doesn’t effect the ocean temperature “that significantly” but 10, 15 or even a 100 of them would probably not be good.

  160. Kori114

    January 2, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    So… Is this actually about avoiding property tax? Because none of the explanations really make sense. Just because people are close to the water, doesn’t mean you need to put your server in the ocean. Buy land and put a data center where people are.

  161. Mobi

    January 2, 2021 at 11:32 pm

    So according to “many” the oceans are already warming up.. Lets put some heaters in it.

  162. LEVANTATE Y ORA

    January 3, 2021 at 12:06 am

    they are doing this because there is no satellite

  163. eagle

    January 3, 2021 at 12:18 am

    amazing

  164. K B

    January 3, 2021 at 12:33 am

    Apple will lay their data servers in the ocean too, after Microsoft and Google have successfully installed theirs in outer space.

  165. rachel gilmore

    January 3, 2021 at 12:37 am

    could be a part of an overall solution…..

  166. Synecdoche

    January 3, 2021 at 12:55 am

    400 years later: Why our oceans are overheated

  167. Andre Basden

    January 3, 2021 at 1:13 am

    I’d be really interested to know how much heat energy one data center this size puts out. It sounds like they only really measured it’s impact on the environment locally, but if this design was brought up to scale? With several thousands of times the servers (and heat) generated? I feel like this could be a huge problem. However at the same time I guess I don’t know if there’s an effective difference between generating that heat in the atmosphere or in the ocean.

    Would love to see more talk about this

  168. EK Lim

    January 3, 2021 at 1:13 am

    iSea !

  169. Soljarag5

    January 3, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    “I know what alot of you are thinking “….. Nope that’s not what I was thinking

  170. Imdareaper

    January 3, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    Bro your teeth are so white! like it’s so white I can tell your lips are chapping!

  171. Tovy B

    January 3, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    His teeth are brighter than my future

  172. Maxime Santa

    January 3, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    We already have global warming problems and these idiots are planning on heating the sea…

  173. Indy Ramsay

    January 3, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    BUT HOW DO THEY GET INTERNET L

  174. Timmy

    January 3, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    So in short, everything runs fine until you open “Windows”…

  175. Dalim Ahmed

    January 3, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    Is it weird that I find that guys teeth really creepy? Idk it’s overly white. Lol

  176. Derek

    January 3, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    3:27 look like she’s under water with the server

  177. Death Gun

    January 4, 2021 at 12:05 am

    I think burrying Servers underwater is going to be a niche market in the future, because you can´t use the heat for something usefuel like heating or algae production.

  178. MannyXVIII

    January 4, 2021 at 12:21 am

    Just be careful to not heat up the water at the bottom of the Atlantic too much. I don’t want an ice age to happen in my lifetime.
    Edit: An Inconvenient truth. The cause is reversed, but the effect the same. Stopping the currents of cold waters towards the equator by warming them would cause the next ice age … But then again. Maybe a planet with a fever could use it.
    Edit2: yes they addressed the point of temperature. They just need to keep in mind that the effects of large scale deployments are harder to predict. After all, we were once sure that we couldn’t possibly change the world climate …. The world is do big, we could never have a meaningful impact

  179. Foxtrot39

    January 4, 2021 at 12:27 am

    So french military submakers are going to assist in the most efficient watercooled system for data center, thats some “gotta see it to believe it” stuff

  180. tereshKOVA

    January 4, 2021 at 12:41 am

    Dad : son why u put your pc in a bathtub?
    Him : if it can survive there it can survive anywhere

  181. Ricardo Espinel

    January 4, 2021 at 12:41 am

    Yay!!! Let’s heat up the ocean even more so all that annoying remaining plankton finally snaps dead

  182. Irwin Espinoza

    January 4, 2021 at 12:43 am

    Let me stop you right there so that means any other countries wanting to spy would be possible on a low key level

  183. Byte.

    January 4, 2021 at 12:47 am

    Who tf Opens his mouse so wide like that guy.. wtf

  184. Maxwell Naslund

    January 4, 2021 at 12:53 am

    I dislike this man based off his first sentence.

  185. 03chrisv

    January 4, 2021 at 12:58 am

    Moore’s law still applies for ARM processors and GPUs.

  186. TheCuteTimo

    January 4, 2021 at 1:09 am

    Yes, lets heat the ocean even more.

    Please dont, we need them

  187. Wayne Flanigan

    January 4, 2021 at 1:14 am

    So find where they are and a depth charge or torpedo takes them out.

  188. Don Ascanio

    January 4, 2021 at 1:15 am

    I wonder if they would build more permanent structures with a sort of living quarters for people to stay at the bottom for extended periods for maintenance without having to retrieve the tubes. Maybe something similar to how deep sea oil well operators work except instead of oil they work with data.

  189. Dennis Anderson

    January 4, 2021 at 1:15 am

    Should be much easier to just have the datacenter onland close to an lake/ocean och just take cooling water from there.

  190. GRINTECH

    January 4, 2021 at 1:17 am

    Can’t wait to see Linus build a PC on the sea floor

  191. vinish shetty

    January 4, 2021 at 1:19 am

    No borders no taxes no shutdowns no rules all you got to do is service them once a year…

  192. Mike Cology

    January 4, 2021 at 1:27 am

    Perfect for an adversary with a submarine. Lift that server tube off its foundation and BYE BYE! Hacked!

  193. junior morales

    January 4, 2021 at 1:32 am

    So Microsoft is the reason for global warming!!!

  194. MrGilly

    January 4, 2021 at 11:00 pm

    new gta6 heist mission

  195. EUROREPAIRS

    January 4, 2021 at 11:01 pm

    Dumping GJ’s of heat into the sea instead of homes. Is stupid.

    Check out what facebook did in denmark

  196. grumpybill

    January 4, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    So warming ocean waters is okay now????

  197. grumpybill

    January 4, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    Are these the servers Hillary Clinton destroyed??

  198. Jack 1

    January 4, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    They told you that your data was in the cloud. now they tell us it’s as far away as possible from the clouds.

    Why doesnt Microsoft trust the clouds! what did they do?

  199. Blakelikesfood

    January 4, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    Seems ridiculous vs a sealed tube ~60f underground.

  200. Xyst Patterns

    January 4, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    No, just no. Ocean temps have already risen killing so much Coral with just one to two degree changes. Watch “Chasing Coral” on Netflix.

    Yes, the water cooling method is strikingly effective, congrats on figuring it out. Honestly. But imagine if every company starts doing this and there’s millions of servers underwater.

    Did one car or one factory cause an exponential growth of emissions and heat in the atmosphere?

  201. Mr. Tattoo ASMR

    January 4, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    Who made a double take of that thumbnail. 😂

  202. . Rebancos Elijah Flores

    January 4, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    So is it the deep dark web?

  203. OutofContent

    January 4, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    yeah but more and more and more it will get hot

  204. M L

    January 4, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    that is where they store their bitcoin

  205. impicker

    January 5, 2021 at 12:02 am

    You also forgot that these data centers also have data. Information that a government can be demanded if the data center was located in that country. If the data was held not in a country then the government cant demand Microsoft to hand over those data.

  206. lagunasoroco

    January 5, 2021 at 12:10 am

    Global warming anyone?

  207. SamsTwn40

    January 5, 2021 at 12:18 am

    ‘Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only.’

  208. Ronin Regime

    January 5, 2021 at 12:22 am

    This is like a space probe or a satellite. You have to think of everything in advance cause you won’t get to them easily or at all

  209. TheRunningDad

    January 5, 2021 at 12:27 am

    Isn’t bill gates one of the wienies crying about global warming and the rise in ocean temps? But he wants to increase ocean temps with underwater data centers.

  210. Abby

    January 5, 2021 at 12:39 am

    UUUUNNNDDDDAAA THE SEEEEAAAAA!! UNNNDAAAA THEEE SEEEAAAA 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫

  211. Arnold vd M

    January 5, 2021 at 12:44 am

    Data centers like evoswitch have a backup in case there is a power outage.
    the power comes from green energy sources of course.
    Customers can also maintain and upgrade their servers.
    For example an SSD-storage upgrade, a memory upgrade or a complete replacement of the server.
    You don’t dive into the ocean to replace a server stored in a container in the ocean.
    If it’s nesecarry to replace a server, all servers have to be replaced.

  212. Exaemo

    January 5, 2021 at 12:49 am

    So we’ve screwed the atmosphere temperature, time to screw the world’s oceans temperatures as well? Not that we haven’t already started messing that up too…

  213. WILLIAM BOYLE

    January 5, 2021 at 1:01 am

    Asparagus

  214. Jaime Aguilera

    January 5, 2021 at 1:01 am

    Grow up no one cars about the Environmental impact.

  215. Tokaga29

    January 5, 2021 at 1:06 am

    This man has one Amazing dentist…

  216. Zetro Ce

    January 5, 2021 at 1:24 am

    This is the next climate change problem. Leave the sea temperature as is. If this gets seriously implicated on an industrial level, a LOT of sea creatures are going to die. And that’s only a fraction of the consequences.

  217. matthew yong

    January 5, 2021 at 1:25 am

    this dam good

  218. Spangler@rt

    January 5, 2021 at 1:27 am

    Does no one realize that adding more heat to the ocean causes global warming and the killing of coral and other ecosystems?! 🤦‍♂️

  219. TRASE

    January 5, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    That’s so cool

  220. Alexey Lvov

    January 5, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    Is Internet flooded with trash because ocean is flooded with trash?

  221. John Edwards

    January 6, 2021 at 12:02 am

    yeah lets pollute our ocean even more just for data centers. geez people wake up stop killing our planet.

  222. crazy_mind1262

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    You know, by saying, “I’m gonna resist the urge to make a Disney reference” you defeated the point. That WAS a Disney reference.

  223. HForceClan

    January 6, 2021 at 12:07 am

    “”Pc’s do not have big performance jumps anymore””
    *AMD has entered the chat*
    *Lisa Su is writing…*
    Lisa Su: u wot mate

  224. EnglishBias

    January 6, 2021 at 12:08 am

    This is where the put the Call of Duty servers. Makes so much sense now.

  225. Ubersnuber

    January 6, 2021 at 12:10 am

    Didn’t know that Jules Verne worked for Disney.

  226. Riley Ferguson

    January 6, 2021 at 12:23 am

    That’s exactly where I’ve been throwing my car batteries

  227. Zendif

    January 6, 2021 at 12:26 am

    So does that mean they’d change the name of “The Cloud” to something like, “The Reef”?

  228. adrian kramer

    January 6, 2021 at 12:37 am

    So when we create advanced ai and it goes rogue we can’t shut it down easily

  229. Owem Mcintyre

    January 6, 2021 at 12:40 am

    So basically I’m gonna make my pc airtight and put it in my fish tank and I get more betterer fps? Thanks guys!!

    • Amy's Garbage Can

      January 6, 2021 at 1:25 am

      look up mineral oil submersion cooling. it works for awhile but the boards break apart.

  230. Peter Wallin

    January 6, 2021 at 12:46 am

    What effect will this have on global warming? Warming the oceans is the biggest threat to our way of living. One of these may not make a big impact but if this becomes standard we are talking about a huge impact.

  231. DaMcPaddy

    January 6, 2021 at 12:53 am

    Move it to space, underwater is a waste of time.

  232. Kent McKean

    January 6, 2021 at 12:57 am

    If Microsoft hopes to keep these servers running for “years” and don’t plan on having service techs learning how to dive, they must plan on putting Linux OS on the servers.

  233. CNLY

    January 6, 2021 at 12:58 am

    is that lil dicky?

  234. big bob

    January 6, 2021 at 12:58 am

    No move the cloud into the cloud

  235. Max Schuit

    January 6, 2021 at 1:06 am

    what is wrong with this guy his mounth

  236. Max Schuit

    January 6, 2021 at 1:07 am

    and after seeing the video i dont understand why they did it

  237. Stephen Villagonzalo

    January 6, 2021 at 1:12 am

    Lesson Learned = Human Intervention causes higher computer failure rate

  238. hey ning

    January 6, 2021 at 1:13 am

    Repairing or renewing this servers will be freaking expensive

  239. LKNANML

    January 6, 2021 at 1:14 am

    My H20 rig doesn’t sound as impressive anymore…

  240. Hef Williams

    January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am

    not sure i like the idea of slowly boiling our oceans, as for the visiting fish and sea life, they’re probably wondering “what the heck is this thing in our home, how can we get rid of it”

  241. John Don

    January 6, 2021 at 1:16 am

    Okay who really opens their mouth that much when they talk

  242. SoulTalk

    January 6, 2021 at 1:19 am

    Yeah let’s kill ocean life and raise ocean temperatures with huge data centers in ocean

  243. the8419

    January 6, 2021 at 1:25 am

    Good, I wanted them to do that.

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