Cloud Under the Sea.

Interesting right?!! Actually its the technology about creating an infrastructure for cloud computing data center under the sea to make it more accessible to coastal areas, develop the green infrastructure and reduce energy consumption. So, let's take a look!!!

Vision: To understand the technology and help spread new ideas to create opportunities.

Hypothesis: Microsoft developing the technology and infrastructure for the underwater cloud data center. This is a green technology and has a very bright future scope for India.

Data centers generate a huge amount of heat and so to cool it down artificial cooling and air conditioning system is placed which directly consumes a lot of energy. For this situation, Microsoft launched Project Natick in July 2014. This project is also helpful for the coastal connectivity and beneficial for the population who live near the coastal area and use the internet.

Microsoft's Project Natick:

Using submarine technology to sustain the water pressure and temperature, they have built a submarine-like structure and placed under the sea. The French Naval Group designed the structure and made the dream come true.

Project Brief: Project Natick’s 40-foot long Northern Island datacenter is loaded with 12 racks containing a total of 864 servers and associated cooling system infrastructure. 12 racks containing 864 standard Microsoft datacenter servers with FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Arrays) acceleration and 27.6 petabytes of disk. This Natick datacenter is as powerful as several thousand high-end consumer PCs and has enough storage for about 5 million movies. Isn't that exciting!!!

Project head Cutler said that the latest version is designed to remain in operation without maintenance for up to five years. Naval Group adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines to the underwater datacenter. The world’s oceans at depth are consistently cold, offering ready and free access to cooling, which is one of the biggest costs for land-based datacenters. Underwater datacenters could also serve as anchor tenants for marine renewable energy such as offshore wind farms or banks of tidal turbines, allowing the two industries to evolve in lockstep.

India and its opportunities:

1. India has demographics with three side water and one side land. The area spans the entire coastline of India 7516.6 km ( Mainland: 5422.6 km, Island Territories: 2094 km).

2. Internet usage of the population of India is huge for this technology, hence the huge market opportunity

3. India is a mechanical manufacturing hub and it has the potential to build these types of structures and place it. India can also export these types of units to the world.

India has a lot of opportunities for this project and generating green energy through this project with tidal and coastal wind energy. We need investment and Research & Development to been done.

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I am attaching the link to Microsoft's report for reference.

https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

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