Microsoft will build a large data center park in Texas
Hong Kong VPS Reported on December 18, As the cloud computing service business continues to grow, Microsoft has been expanding its data center capabilities to support its rapidly growing services around the world. The construction of global data centers has always been seen as an expensive arms race. Microsoft's main competitor is the cloud computing giant Amazon Network Services, which spends billions of dollars to improve the quality of service they provide to users and increase the locations where large amounts of data and virtual infrastructure can be stored.
Last month, Microsoft announced its multi site expansion plan in Europe, and in September, it announced the launch of three cloud computing data centers in India. Amazon announced in November that it plans to build online cloud data centers in the UK and South Korea.
Not long ago, San Antonio Business Magazine reported the land acquisition of Microsoft. The report quoted Texas officials as saying that Microsoft purchased 158 acres of land in Redmond, Texas.
The company plans to build a data center campus in four stages and eight stages, and is expected to break ground in January next year. The total space of its data center park will reach 1.2 million to 1.3 million square feet, York Duncan, president of RTF, told Business Magazine.
In addition to building a dual data center, Microsoft also leases the space provided by wholesale data center providers like all other network scale data center operators. Microsoft is the largest tenant of DuPont Fabros Technology, a wholesale data center provider, accounting for more than one fifth of its tenants' annual total rental income.
