"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
Microsoft experimented with oceanic data centers too, and I don’t believe they actually abandoned that project either. It’s just Musk and his ilk are very loud and outsized loudness has a tendency to dominate public discourse.
Microsoft experimented with oceanic data centers too, and I don’t believe they actually abandoned that project either. It’s just Musk and his ilk are very loud and outsized loudness has a tendency to dominate public discourse.
It was concluded in 2024. MS called it a success but also discontinued research and expansion for reasons that don’t seem clear from what I can find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
Oh, shame to read that. It sounded like it had real potential.