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Six months after scaling back construction of some of its data centres, Microsoft is back in gear and ready to open at least two of them next month. Microsoft officials had slowed work on a data centre in Chicago and another facility planned in Des Moines, Ohio, late last year, as the economy sputtered. However, if the company really wants to win the battle for cloud computing dominance as the concept catches on, Microsoft executives knew they had to ante up to build mega data centres – bad economy or not.

Wednesday, Microsoft will open a new 300,000 sq ft data centre in Dublin, Ireland – its first mega data centre outside the US – and the company plans to open its mammoth, 700,000 sq ft Chicago data centre on July 20, according to Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services organization within Global Foundation Services.

Source: Internet News

Two years after Microsoft began operating a data centre in Quincy, the city is in the midst of a multi-million-dollar project to bring recycled water to the facility. Although the city water reclamation project is costly — estimated at US$9 million — the first phase is being built with a US$4.5 million grant from the state. And the city has appealed to federal lawmakers for rest of the money.

Microsoft’s 474,000 sq ft building on 75 acres is one of three massive data centres in Quincy. Yahoo and Intuit also bought land and built large server farms. This winter, Sabey bought about 40 acres of land in Quincy and will break ground this summer on a data centre. Eventually, the city wants to provide recycled water to the three data centres there, and any others that sprout up. When complete, the water reclamation facility will be able to treat up to 5 million gallons a day.

Source: Wenatchee World