Microsoft takes a new step: in just 90 days, it has installed such a data center that no longer exists in the world.

Do you think that water and electricity have nothing to do with it? The new Microsoft data centers are shifting this conviction.

In 2016, Microsoft announced its unique project, the Natick project. They had planned to create submarine data centers where they would be cooled by seawater.

One of these data centers is already close to the Scottish coastline and CEO Saty Nadella says the company could set up data centers that can support the cloud platform around the world.

"Because 50% of us live near bodies of water and we think this is the right way to think about future data centers and their development," said Saty Nadella, a Microsoft Future Decoded conference participant.

The 12-meter data center near the Scottish coast resembles a capsule with 864 servers that support a liquid cooling system. This heat generated by computers is simply given to the ocean. The data center itself receives electricity from the Orkney Islands power grids, powered by wind farms.

A small data center offers many benefits. Microsoft can configure such data centers in other parts of the world, reducing the distance between servers and Microsoft cloud users and the latency.

"This data center was built very quickly, and the entire chain of work – from start to finish only lasted 90 days," Nadella said.

Microsoft is now planning to track this Scottish data center for at least a year. If the system continues to function as planned, it is likely that the company will decide to set up more and more such submarine data centers around the world.