{"id":7063,"date":"2018-06-06T23:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2018-06-06T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T06:22:01","slug":"microsoft-drops-800-computers-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/microsoft-drops-800-computers-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft drops 800+ computers to the bottom of the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026and not just for Teh Lulz. <a href=\"http:\/\/natick.research.microsoft.com\/\">This effort<\/a> is actually quite fascinating:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvvJc4Uw3aA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Verge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/6\/6\/17433206\/microsoft-underwater-data-center-project-natick\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s underwater data center will be deployed for five years, and includes 12 racks with 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. That\u2019s enough storage for around 5 million movies, and the data center is as powerful as thousands of high-end desktop PCs. The data center will be powered by an undersea cable and renewable energy from the Orkney Islands. The cable will also connect the servers back to the internet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NewImage-7.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"287\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AvvJc4Uw3aA\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026and not just for Teh Lulz. This effort is actually quite fascinating: The Verge writes, Today\u2019s underwater data center will be deployed for five years, and includes 12 racks with 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. That\u2019s enough storage for around 5 million movies, and the data center is as powerful as thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}