{"id":7785,"date":"2020-10-02T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=7785"},"modified":"2020-10-02T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:35:42","slug":"renewables-and-efficiency-in-the-underwater-data-center-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/7785\/renewables-and-efficiency-in-the-underwater-data-center-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables and efficiency in the underwater data center Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important confirmation of the advantages of <strong>data center cooling<\/strong> exploiting the <strong>cold and constant temperatures of sea water<\/strong> recently came from <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>, with its Natick project, an <strong>underwater data center module<\/strong> that was installed in 2018 at a depth of 35 meters on the seafloor in the <strong>North Sea<\/strong>. After two years of operations, the data center has just been brought back to the surface and showed a <strong>failure rate of servers of approximately one-eight<\/strong> compared to an identical data center structure installed on the ground, therefore with a <strong>reliability eight times higher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/underwater-data-centers-microsoft-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"underwater-data-centers-microsoft\" width=\"750\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/underwater-data-centers-microsoft-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/underwater-data-centers-microsoft-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/underwater-data-centers-microsoft-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/underwater-data-centers-microsoft.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is another main example of the potential of <strong>energy saving and cooling efficiency<\/strong> that can be achieved using water basins, not only for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6632\/dimple-jacket-and-free-cooling-in-data-center-against-global-warming\/\">data center cooling<\/a> but also for example for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6889\/what-is-and-how-it-works-a-heat-pump\/\"><strong>heat pumps<\/strong><\/a>, as showed in the Tempco applications of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.tempco.it\/solutions-en\/heat-exchangers\/dimple-jacket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TCOIL heat exchangers<\/strong><\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/7359\/immersion-cooling-at-the-marina-di-loano-seaport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marina di Loano seaport<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6425\/heat-pumps-and-deep-water-dimple-jacket-tcoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Como lake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/datacenter-raffreddamento-Microsoft-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft datacenter subacqueo\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/datacenter-raffreddamento-Microsoft-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/datacenter-raffreddamento-Microsoft-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/datacenter-raffreddamento-Microsoft-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/datacenter-raffreddamento-Microsoft.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natick.research.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft\u2019s Natick project<\/a> was based on the idea of putting the data center in an <strong>environment with constant and low temperatures<\/strong>, avoiding fluctuations between day and night that are detrimental for electronics components. And therefore using the cold seawater of the North Sea to cool servers <strong>achieving a big energy saving<\/strong>. The data center has also been <strong>powered at 100% by wind and solar energy<\/strong>. The structure was then <strong>filled only with nitrogen<\/strong>, eliminating oxygen and humidity that cause corrosion on data center equipment. An environment not suitable for human operators, but very much favorable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6211\/semiconductors-cooling-unit-at-cern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electronic components<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/project_natick_undersea_microsoft_datacenter_1528380408.jpg\" alt=\"project_natick_undersea_microsoft_datacenter_1528380408\" width=\"725\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/project_natick_undersea_microsoft_datacenter_1528380408.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/project_natick_undersea_microsoft_datacenter_1528380408-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project achieved very important goals, in terms of <strong>higher reliability with lower energy consumption<\/strong> for server cooling, lower risks of damages due to shocks and people moving among the servers. And most of all, an <strong>increased sustainability of data centers<\/strong>, since the Microsoft underwater data center was completely powered using <strong>renewable energy<\/strong>. A crucial step forward in the direction of future and sustainable data centers, to satisfy the increasing demand related to the <strong>spread of cloud and AI applications worldwide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here to our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.tempco.it\/newsletter-solid-temperature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tempco Newsletter &#8211; Solid Temperature<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy saving and renewables in the underwater data center Microsoft, the Natick project in the North Sea achieved reliability eight times higher with sustainable server cooling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,247,469,73,63],"tags":[2058,1042,2069,127,254,474,450,2155,126,74,138,2497,2502,890,2506,824,1049,1509,1543,2505,351,2503,2504],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - 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