Microsoft Moving into Chicago Cloud Center

Each container, stacked two high, reportedly contains about 1,800–2,500 servers

Oct. 2, 2009 08:30 PM

Microsoft unveiled its new $550 million, partially container-based, 700,000-square-foot cloud data center in a warehouse somewhere around Chicago Wednesday. Each container, stacked two high, reportedly contains about 1,800-2,500 servers with room enough for 112 containers. The place, still not maxed out, opened September 1. There's another center in Dublin as well as one in Texas and another that it's moving out of the state of Washington for tax reasons.

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