Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep Learning

At Microsoft, we put our cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the hands of those working to solve global environmental challenges, through programs such as AI for Earth. We also use these same tools to understand our own interaction with the environment, such as the work being done in concert with Project Natick.

 

Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide; it is the world's first deployed underwater datacenter and it was designed with an emphasis on sustainability. Phase 2 extends the research accomplished in Phase 1 by deploying a full-scale datacenter module in the North Sea, powered by renewable energy. Project Natick uses AI to monitor the servers and other equipment for signs of failure and to identify any correlations between the environment and server longevity.

 

 

Read more about it in the Azure blog.