Case Studies
Finland’s Sand Battery Heats Buildings With 2,000 Tons of Rock
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A small Finnish town is heating buildings with 2,000 tons of crushed rock. Discover how this unusual sand battery works, why it stores heat instead of
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Google Built Internet Balloons That Worked. Why Did Loon Shut Down?
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Google sent giant balloons into the stratosphere to bring internet access to remote communities. The technology worked in real deployments, including Puerto
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The Swimming Pool with a Data Centre in Its Heating System
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A few metres of pipe connect computing to swimming in Exmouth. The engineering is real. Understanding the savings means following the heat beyond the servers.
Sealed underwater datacenter module resting on the seabed in clear blue water, illuminated by warm sunset rays.Case Studies
Microsoft Put 864 Servers Under the Sea. What Happened When They Came Back Up?
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Project Natick · Microsoft 864 servers. Two years underwater. No technicians. Microsoft sealed an entire datacenter inside a steel cylinder and lowered
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The Islands Where the Internet Comes Ashore
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On an island, the internet has a shoreline. In Tonga, that shoreline is part of a much larger system stretching beneath the Pacific. Fiber-optic cable