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Comment by Veserv

8 hours ago

You mean you operate them like Microsoft's failed submerged data center project [1]. When pointing at validating past examples you are generally supposed to point at successes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick

Did we read the same Wikipedia page? It doesn't say the word "failed" anywhere on it.

  • > By 2024, Project Natick had been inactive for several years, though it was referenced in media as though it was ongoing. That year, Microsoft confirmed that the project was inactive and that it had no servers underwater.

    I wouldn't exactly call this a success, for that matter.