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		akhilcacharya on Sept 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces afte... Was the load in the data center synthetic, or did it handle production traffic? Curious to see how they split it out. I doubt there's a "Orkney-Underwater" region.

miyuru on Sept 14, 2020 | [–]

The official site has the info you are looking for.

"Natick was used to perform COVID-19 research for Folding at Home and World Community Grid."

Also the data center designation for it was "Northern Isles" (SSDC-002).

https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

_pd19 on Sept 14, 2020 | [–]

Almost certainly synthetic

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