Microsoft's underwater data centre has resurfaced after two years: A success!

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Two years ago, Microsoft sank a data centre off the coast of Orkney in a wild experiment. That data centre has now been retrieved from the ocean floor, and Microsoft researchers have found that just eight out of the 855 servers on board had failed; 1/8th the failure rate of a land-based equivalent.



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