Microsoft is experimenting with underwater data centers

When your laptop or your smartphone gets hot, you know it's crunching a lot of data. So imagine the amount of heat generated by the racks upon racks of servers that store and process the world's digital lives. Keeping these data centers cool is such a problem that tech companies like Facebook and Google prefer to move them to colder countries than pay the air conditioning bill. But for Microsoft, there's an even better home for all that data: under the sea.

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