Microsoft’s Natick experiment was meant to show that portable, flexible data center deployments in coastal areas around the world could prove a modular way to scale up data center needs while keeping energy and operation costs low, all while providing smaller data centers closer to where customers need them, instead of routing everything to centralized hubs.

Next, the company will look into seeing how it can scale up the size and performance of these data centers by linking more than one together to combine their capabilities.

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