Microsoft is touting the progress of its data center strategy, which involves packing servers, power, and cooling gear into shipping containers in order to maximize energy efficiency and computing capacity.
In a Monday blog post, Michael Manos, General Manager, Data Center Services, said Microsoft has finished the first phase of construction on its Chicago data center, its first facility designed with the container-based approach.
Located in the Chicago suburb of Northlake, Illinois, Microsoft's $500 million, 550,000 square foot data center will have the capacity to scale to "hundreds of thousands of servers," Manos wrote.
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