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Washington

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Pacific Northwest

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United States

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North America

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Americas

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Microsoft Redmond Ridge

Total Power

SqFt

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Built in July 2009, The 57,000 square foot Redmond Ridge 1 data center is about eight miles from Microsoft's headquarters campus in Redmond.

The site was a cultural shift for Microsoft employees at the time. At the time each development team had their own server labs on the Redmond campus. Today cloud computing is commonplace, but this data center forced the teams to think and develop software in terms of remote computing.

Power

17 MW of dedicated utility power with onsite substation provides inexpensive power

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Sites within 15 miles of Station Max
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Distance	Site	About
6.40 miles	Colocation Northwest Redmond
8.84 miles	Colocation Northwest Belleview
10.37 miles	Lumen Seattle 5 (Bothell)	The site was a former tw telecom facility.
10.44 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
10.44 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle North
15.02 miles	Digital Fortress Lynnwood	In 2021, Landmark Infrastructure acquired the facility, but Digital Fortress operates it.
15.02 miles	HostPapa SEA1	The ColoCrossing site is located within Bytegrid's datacenter(former NetRiver)
15.02 miles	H5 Seattle	H5 owns the building and is landlord to the Seattle Level(3) Gateway and a XO data center.
15.02 miles	Lumen Seattle 1 (1000 Denny Way)	The site is a Level3 Gateway for Seattle.
15.02 miles	Verizon: 1000 Denny Way
15.02 miles	Chirisa: Lynnwood, WA	Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP) acquired this standalone facility in Lynnwood, Washington.
15.20 miles	Lumen Seattle 3
15.24 miles	Astute Hosting Seattle	Astute Hosting's site is in the Westin Building
15.24 miles	DataBank Westin SEA1	The site was a former zColo (Zayo) facility before being acquired in 2020.
15.24 miles	Optic Fusion Westin
15.24 miles	Lunavi Seattle
15.24 miles	Semaphore Seattle	Semaphore is a local provider in Seattle. It was one of the first to provide colocation in the Westin Building.
15.24 miles	Equinix Seattle SE2	Equinix SE2 occupies 4 different floors with in the Westin Building
15.24 miles	Westin Building Seattle	The Westin Building is a Carrier Hotel and the communications hub of the Pacific Northwest. The 34 story building has a conglomeration of colocation providers, carriers, and peering exchanges.
15.24 miles	Fiberhub SEA1
15.24 miles	Colocation Northwest Westin Downtown
15.27 miles	Equinix Seattle SE3	Equinix SE3 is an 8-story steel and concrete structure designed to meet Zone 3 seismic specifications
15.28 miles	Clise: 2020 Fifth	Completed in 2013, the facility repurposed a 1975 seven story parking garage, and was honored as NAIOP’s Redevelopment of the Year in 2013 and received the AGC Grand Award for Construction in 2014.
15.31 miles	Verizon: Seattle 1100 2nd	Former XO Communications site
15.34 miles	365 Seattle
15.36 miles	Digital Realty: 301 Virginia St.	Digital Realty is planning to build a six-story, 58,000-square-foot data center in downtown Seattle, Washington, targeting a site currently occupied by an arts venue and former Bed Bath & Beyond store.
15.44 miles	Lumen Seattle 4
15.53 miles	Evocative Seattle SEA1
15.53 miles	TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2	TierPoint's marketing describes two data centers in Seattle, but in reality, they are in the same building. The site was formerly operated by Adhost before being acquired by TierPoint in 2012.
15.53 miles	KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)	The buildings have been used as the exterior for the fictional hospital in the “Grey’s Anatomy” TV show set in Seattle. In real life, it also houses Univision Seattle, KVI Radio, Star 101.5 radio and a data center.
15.94 miles	Digital Fortress Downtown	Purpose-built, high-density datacenter with Seismic Zone 4 construction.
15.95 miles	NYI Seattle SEA1
16.07 miles	Colossus: Starbucks Center	A data center is being considered within vacant space at Seattle’s Starbucks Center, using portions of two existing buildings and part of the western parking area for supporting equipment.
16.30 miles	Centersquare: Lynnwood SEA1	Centersquare's Lynnwood data center is situated 15 miles north of Seattle and 30 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, servicing the northwest of the US.
17.75 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle South
17.94 miles	EdgeConneX Seattle
18.02 miles	Sabey Intergate.East	Sabey's Integrate East campus has 3 buildings. Its location is close to both Boeing and SeaTac airfields
18.13 miles	DataBank SeaTAC SEA2	UPS/DC power with battery back-up with 2N configuration
18.26 miles	Internap Seattle 3355 120th
18.26 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1B
18.30 miles	COLOinSeattle Tukwila
18.30 miles	Digital Fortress South Seattle	Digital Fotress's NOC and data center are located on Sabey's Intergate West Campus
18.38 miles	Sabey Intergate.West	Intergate.West is part of Intergate.Seattle, one of the largest privately owned multi-tenant data center campus on the West coast. Intergate.West provides excellent access to I-5, I-405, Hwy 99, SR-599 and East Marginal Way. Sea-Tac International Airport is only 3 miles away;
18.38 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1-A

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Satellite View of 23050 NE 102 St in Redmond

Source: Baxtel

Row of Server Cabinets at "Redmond Ridge 1"

Source: Baxtel

Another Row of Cabinets

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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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