Re: Microsoft wants to put data centers at the bottom of the sea
Running cables to north pole is worth it… especially when cascadia subduction zone is active (again) and it is just matter of time when there is a major movement and takes the whole datacenter or datacenters with it. I’ve been involved with datacenters for last 15+ years and this is as dumb as they come. Facebook and google have datacenter in the Arctic (since 2013), why can’t Microsoft? To me this just seems like marketing gimmick for Microsoft’s azure platform.
On top of that you have to find people who are not scared of water, are not scared of deep sea and close tight spaces and who can work and concentrate on highly available environment, in very stressful and demanding IT roles (there is remote access to manage the environments but someone has to set things up first and for maintenance, etc.)