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Amsterdam

Metro
North Holland

Province
Netherlands

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

Region

Microsoft Amsterdam

Year Built: 2014

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Total Building Size

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Began in 2014, Microsoft's campus on the Agriport A7 in the Noord Holland province will cost up to 2 billion euros when complete.

In 2015, the first phase of the data center became operational; the second phase in 2017. Third phase was completed in 2018. The forth is currently under construction.

There are 13 main data center buildings and 4 smaller buildings. See the campus map in the photo section below. Note, the sqft is estimated, and not an official number.

Building	Estimated SqFt	Notes
Unnamed	225,000
6AZA	65,000
6AZB	65,000
6AZC	65,000
6AZD	65,000
7AZA	65,000
7AZB	65,000
7AZC	65,000
7AZD	65,000
4 small bldgs (7,500 sqft each)	30,000	7,500 sqft each
Expansion #1	230,000	Two stories with 115,000 for each floor plate
Expansion #2	230,000	Two stories with 115,000 for each floor plate
AMS11	102,000
AMS12	102,000

Map and Nearby Locations:

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Sites within 15 miles of Tower Alpha
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Distance	Site	About
0.21 miles	Yondr: MiddenMeer	European Cloud Data Center Builder Yondr is building a data center in Agriport, Middenmeer.
0.79 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Microsoft operates a data center campus in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, close to its existing facility.
0.80 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Microsoft is building a new data center campus in the Hollands Kroon area in the north of the Netherlands, close to its existing facility. The campus is located at Cultuurweg 11 in Middenmeer (Het Venster).
0.86 miles	Switch Datacenters: AMS5	Switch Datacenters Amsterdam 5 (AMS5) will be a next generation 70 - 150 MW city data center around 5 kilometer from NIKHEF/ AMS-IX.
1.08 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Microsoft has purchased a 50-hectare plot of land in Middenmeer, north of Amsterdam, for the expansion of its AMS13/14 hyperscale data center campus.
1.21 miles	CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands	Located next to Microsoft's data center.
1.66 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
14.78 miles	Datacenter Noord-Holland	Datacenter Noord-Holland is located in Alkmaar and operates according to the TIER-3 standard.

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Expanding in Middenmeer

Source: Microsoft

Map shows 5 buildings with 2 expansion building under construction as of early 2020

Microsoft Middenmeer Data Center Campus Map

Source: Baxtel

Map shows 5 buildings with 2 expansion building under construction as of early 2020

7AZ group of buildings under construction in circa 2017

Source: Baxtel

State of Azure Locations as of July 2019

Source: Microsoft

Conceptual Azure Regions and Availability Zones diagram

Source: Microsoft

Operating Company

Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

Azure Regions

An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

Geographies

An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Availability Zones

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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