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TranquilMarmot
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Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center
Why not put data centers in Antarctica? Plenty of cold cold land there.
evanb
on Feb 1, 2016
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International treaties have established that Antarctica is exclusively for science, and not for private use.
cooper12
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Latency for one thing, as the article mentions
udkl
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Last I heard, Microsoft actually was thinking of putting a data center on greenland back in 2007-08.
Maybe they already have a 'secret' unannounced private data center there.
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