Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success

Underwater pods can reduce latency by moving cloud services closer to customers.

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While this is great for cooling, especially up there, I can't see any other meaningful benefits to doing this.

There's so many factors which could take the thing offline, stormy weather, shipping, fishermen, leaks.

Cool idea but just doesn't seem worth the hassle

Why not? I mean, we already run undersea data cables across the Atlantic, which are marked as no-anchor zones anyway. Why not add a data center next to it, especially for latency reasons.

Wait till the Professor finds one of these washed up on Gilligan's Island...