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.
17 MW of dedicated utility power with onsite substation provides inexpensive power
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Colocation Northwest Redmond | |
| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Colocation Northwest Belleview | |
| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Lumen Seattle 5 (Bothell) |
The site was a former tw telecom facility.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Prime CenterInterested in this information?Contact us |
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | WORLDLINK Seattle North | |
| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Digital Fortress Lynnwood |
In 2021, Landmark Infrastructure acquired the facility, but Digital Fortress operates it.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | HostPapa SEA1 |
The ColoCrossing site is located within Bytegrid's datacenter(former NetRiver)
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | H5 Seattle |
H5 owns the building and is landlord to the Seattle Level(3) Gateway and a XO data center.
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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.
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.
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 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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National Grid Ventures (NGV), the commercial arm of National Grid, has acquired a 35% stake in Joulent for $1.75 billion to support development of power infrastructure for large data centers. The investment will help fund Project Kilby, a 2.67GW natural gas facility being developed with Chevron....
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The first data center at Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin campus is now officially operational, the company confirmed on June 23. Construction was completed just over two years after the project was first announced. The site is part of Microsoft’s “Fairwater” data center design and will form...
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