We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .The sealed chest was found off the coast of the Orkney Islands. Reeled up from the ocean deep – coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemone – the haul had been sunk, deliberately, years before. But what lay within wasn’t some long-lost plunder of precious pearls or rare stones. Instead, this payload contained enough power to store the knowledge, arts and secrets of millions of people.This was Microsoft’s underwater data centre, the ‘Northern Isles’: 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of disk (roughly equivalent...…We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .The sealed chest was found off the coast of the Orkney Islands. Reeled up from the ocean deep – coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemone – the haul had been sunk, deliberately, years before. But what lay within wasn’t some long-lost plunder of precious pearls or rare stones. Instead, this payload contained enough power to store the knowledge, arts and secrets of millions of people.This was Microsoft’s underwater data centre, the ‘Northern Isles’: 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of disk (roughly equivalent...WW…