In Data Center Knowledge last week there was a short article, accompanied by a set of photos, that gave view into Microsoft’s very cool new “Cloud Farm” data center. The design of the data center, which is located in Quincy Washington, was driven by Microsoft’s use of some ultra-cool modular data centers Image may be NSFW.
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. It was the modular nature of these units that helped Microsoft finish their initial deployment at their new facility in only eight months.
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One of the modular data centers at Microsoft's Cloud Farm. Dang, those are good looking units. (Photo source: Data Center Knowledge)
Extra-credit reading:
- Welcome to the Wild and Wacky World of Data Centers
- Tier5 first to fire up Dell’s 3rd-gen Modular Data Center
- Dell’s Modular Data Center — Hello World
Pau for now…
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