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Land Bank

Land secured for future development

Amsterdam

Metro
North Holland

Province
Netherlands

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

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Microsoft: Project Nimble

Utility Provider: Vattenfall

Lot Size: 124 acres

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. This growth project is internally known as "Project Nimble."

To boost sustainability, Microsoft is incorporating a publicly accessible water-collection area around the facility to harvest rainwater for its cooling systems. The data center's power will come from a dedicated contract with the Dutch utility Vattenfall, sourcing electricity from the nearby Wieringermeer wind farm, which is located in a reclaimed, dike-protected lowland area known as a polder.

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Sites within 15 miles of Point Two
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Distance	Site	About
0.28 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).
0.30 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.
0.42 miles	CyrusOne Middenmeer, Netherlands	Located next to Microsoft's data center.
0.61 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
1.08 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
1.23 miles	Yondr: MiddenMeer	European Cloud Data Center Builder Yondr is building a data center in Agriport, Middenmeer.
1.90 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.
15.23 miles	Datacenter Noord-Holland	Datacenter Noord-Holland is located in Alkmaar and operates according to the TIER-3 standard.

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State of Azure Locations as of July 2019

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Conceptual Azure Regions and Availability Zones diagram

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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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