Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

Re:Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center by cm2187 on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:20AM (#11010321)

Sharks love to chew oceanic cables!

If you need to fix something while the datacentre is in the middle of the ocean, the cost and time will be a multiple vs if it just off the coast.

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Re:Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center by dogma1138 on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:50AM (#11010408)

That's true for copper cables not so much for fiber optics ;)

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Re:Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center by rgbrenner on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:57AM (#11010433)

I think you have the backwards -- sharks aren't attracted to copper cables.. but are attracted to undersea fiber optic cables.. because they carry high voltage power (for the undersea repeaters), which emits an electromagnetic field that attracts the sharks:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/08/15/sharks-...

http://bgr.com/2014/08/13/google-underwater-cable-network/

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Re:Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center by dogma1138 on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:09AM (#11010462)

I stand corrected, forgot about the power cables I know sharks were attracted to the EM field around the old transatlantic phone and telegraph wires. Well at least it will be a good reason for an outage.

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Re:Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center by cm2187 on Monday February 01, 2016 @08:13AM (#11011526)

They will be able to send a shark tooth to angry clients.

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