Subsea Cloud is offering potential customers the chance to try out its underwater datacenter facilities for up to 90 days before making any further co

Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server system

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2024-05-07 11:30:06

Subsea Cloud is offering potential customers the chance to try out its underwater datacenter facilities for up to 90 days before making any further commitments, in a bid to attract new customers to the project.

The bit barn biz, which specializes in subsea datacenter deployments, said that its scheme is a change in approach from that taken over the last three years, where it conducted one-on-one trials with clients, as these proved costly.

Subsea claims that customers using its kit will see a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions and a 30 percent reduction in operational expenditure, plus no cooling costs.

Dubbed Project OTTO, the testing scheme will be a rolling trial using one datacenter unit, deployed off the coast of South-West Norway. The first phase is set to take place in October, and participants can select a test period of 30, 60, or 90 days.

However, each participant will have the opportunity to engage in a trial phase only once, unless they make significant hardware modifications that would require further testing, Subsea said.