CO1 is the east half of the original Columbia building at 501 Port Industrial Parkway in Quincy, Washington. CO2 forms the west half. Microsoft (then MSN) bought the property in 2006 and built the first building in 2006-2007.
The building has five data halls, its own bank of evaporative cooling towers and its own fire pump. Twelve Caterpillar 3516C diesel generators rated 2.5 MWe back it up. Grant County PUD supplies hydro power to the campus.
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Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
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.
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Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.
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