Story from the Data Center Journal
The big data center players are seeing green. Green is the color to signify energy efficiency and also the revenues from the increased demand for services that rely on data center space. Microsoft like many other players in the internet services market has been increasing their data center square footage considerably in the past 10 years.
Recently Microsoft announced that they will be building new facilities that include one in Ireland and another in the Chicago, Illinois market. Both of these data center are now complete and will be going online in July.
These facilities represent the increased demand for services throughout the world such as e-mail, web pages, photos, videos, software and more.
According to Microsoft the Dublin, Ireland facility will go online July 1st and was constructed for 300,000 square feet for phase I. The facility was designed with energy efficient best practices that include usage of outside air for cooling.
The Chicago facility is scheduled to open on July 20th and is being designated as one of the world’s largest data centers at approximately 700,000 square feet. This facility utilizes Microsoft’s container unit which allows Microsoft to wheel in up to 2500 servers and have them connected within hours.
The two new facilities by Microsoft is a commitment to the growth of software as a service and the cloud. Like many other companies that are also interested in internet services there has been increased investment in data centers to accommodate the growth of this area.
