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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Microsoft bought about 295 acres in the city of Becker for a future data center.
Microsoft has filed plans to build a campus with three data centers in Malaga, Washington. Microsoft acquired more than 100 acres in a deal spread across two phases; Phase I is the Lojo Property, 72.5 acres at 5375 Malaga Alcoa Highway for which Microsoft paid $6.6 million.
Microsoft paid $73.2 million for the land on the western banks of Coyote Creek in September 2017.
Microsoft has acquired 377 acres of farmland for $40 million for a data center in Van Meter's Vision Park, Des Moines, Iowa.
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.
Microsoft has filed plans to build a campus with three data centers in Malaga, Washington. The development will construct the first building on the site by the end of 2025, with potential for two more buildings by 2027.
Announced in October 2023, the campus in Rome Georgia is known as ‘Project Firecracker' It''s situated on a 347-acre property on Huffaker Road, east of Fouche Gap Road.
The Wisconsin facility was first announced in March 2023 and is set on a 315-acre parcel
Microsoft Corp. recently acquired 124 acres across two parcels at 13490 University Blvd. and 5941 Wellington Road. University Boulevard site is seeking an allowance for up to nearly 4 million square feet of data centers and a new electric substation.
Microsoft was one of the first companies to build a data center in Quincy. In 2006 Microsoft constructed the first phase (470,000 square feet) of the ‘Columbia Data Center’ in Quincy, Washington
Microsoft plans to build yet another data center SAT16 at its campus at 3555 Westover Link in San Antonio. The project is described as a building shell and fit out associated with 245,000 square foot (22,760 sqm) data center.
Microsoft's Cheyenne data center in Wyoming is powered entirely by wind energy.
Microsoft Corp. recently acquired 124 acres across two parcels at 13490 University Blvd. and 5941 Wellington Road. University Boulevard site is seeking an allowance for up to nearly 4 million square feet of data centers and a new electric substation.
Microsoft has bought an undeveloped piece of land directly south of Denali Logistics Park. The 420-acre logistics and industrial park, has the ability to develop buildings that are up to 1.1 million square feet in size and can build up to 6 million in square feet total.
The Boydton site has strong fiber connectivity from existing routes supporting a government data center in the region.
Microsoft has filed plans to build a campus with three data centers in Malaga, Washington. The development will construct the first building on the site by the end of 2025, with potential for two more buildings by 2027.
Commissioned in 2009, the site was Microsoft's first data center outside of the United States.
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microsoft_cloud_infrastructure_datacenter_and_network_fact_sheet | July 2015 |
Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure (2015) |
azure_data_center_transformation | August 2016 |
Azure Intro & Data Center Transformation |