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Microsoft: We're on pace to build 50 to 100 new datacenters each year ZDNet 4 hrs ago © Provided by ZDNet Credit: Microsoft A year ago, Microsoft reported that server component shortages had limited how much it could invest in its datacenter business. It looks like those limitations are over, as company officials are predicting that Microsoft will be building 50 to 100 new datacenters each year for the foreseeable future. Popular Searches Microsoft disclosed its latest cloud build-out predictions as part of its launch of a new, immersive datacenter tour experience on April 20.  Microso...

It’s even bigger than that time its researchers sunk a submarine-like data center in the ocean. It’s running production workloads. But the rack of servers submerged in engineered fluid inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Washington, is still somewhat of a science project, similar in its purpose to Project Natick, the hermetically sealed computer-filled capsule the company’s R&D scientists had running on the ocean floor off the shores of Orkney Islands, in Scotland. Like Natick, running real production software on a few dozen servers inside a tub of low-boiling-point fluid in...

Immersion cooling to offset data centers’ massive power demands gains a big booster in Microsoft LiquidStack does it. So does Submer. They’re both dropping servers carrying sensitive data into goop in an effort to save the planet. Now they’re joined by one of the biggest tech companies in the world in their efforts to improve the energy efficiency of data centers, because Microsoft is getting into the liquid-immersion cooling market. Microsoft is using a liquid it developed in-house that’s engineered to boil at 122 degrees Fahrenheit (lower than the boiling point of water) to act as a...

Microsoft is using boiling liquid to cool one of its Azure data centers SHARE Microsoft Corp. revealed today that it has been experimenting with what it calls a “two-phase immersion cooling technology” using a liquid that boils at extremely low temperatures to keep its data centers cool. The company explained in a post today on its Innovation blog that it has already implemented the technology in production at its Quincy, Washington-based Azure data center. Today, Microsoft primarily relies on air-based cooling systems in order to keep the temperature of the proc...

128Shares Back in September last year, Microsoft announced that its underwater data centres experiment produced good results. Now, the company is taking its liquid cooling experiments even further. Rather than submerging its servers, the company is now flooding them. ADVERTISEMENT Of course, Microsoft isn’t just dumping water into its server bath tub. Instead, it uses a special type of liquid which, according to The Verge, is fluorocarbon-based. And it boils at 50 degrees Celsius, half the rate of plain water. This low boiling point makes it evaporate up to the chilled lid of the server hol...