L’annuncio di due nuovi Mega Data Center a Chicago e Dublino.
Saranno due “luoghi” chiave per la strategia SaaS (anzi S+S) di Microsoft e per i servizi Live sui quali a Redmond scommettono in maniera decisa.
Alcuni dati per dare un idea delle dimensioni:
The Chicago, Illinois facility covers over 700,000 square feet—approximately the size of 16 football fields—with critical power of 60 megawatts. Phase 1 represents 30 mega watts of critical power and the rest is pre-positioned for future growth. Two-thirds of the Chicago data center is optimized for housing containerized servers. Containers conserve energy and will help us realize new advancements in power efficiency with a PUE yearly average calculated at 1.22. These prepackaged units (with up to 1,800 to 2,500 servers each) can be wheeled into the facility and made operational within hours, so they represent important advances in the ability to quickly and efficiently provision capacity. The density inside the containers can exceed 10 times that of traditional data centers.
