Inside a Microsoft data center So how do they cram 5,000 cores and 10,000 terabytes - 10 petabytes - of storage into 3 40 ft. Written by Robin Harris, Contributor March 23, 2009 at 11:24 p.m. PT ...

Over the past three years, Microsoft, the world's largest vendor of computer software, has invested or released plans to ...

Microsoft recently gave CIO.com a tour, as part of the first group of journalists to see inside an Azure data center in a decade, and there were plenty of restrictions: no photographs or ...

CNET gets a tour of Microsoft's 700,000-square-foot Chicago facility--a data center the company says just might be the biggest on the planet. Inside one of the world's largest data centers - CNET X ...

Microsoft, in particular, has an extremely large campus containing multiple data centers. Prior to this week’s Ignite conference we were offered the rare opportunity to get a glimpse inside the Quincy ...

As Microsoft showed us, it’s stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers all around the world. Physically real, but still beautiful.

Microsoft's Azure Modular data center brings computing on the edge. If there’s one thing you can rely on, in today’s world, it’s change. And change often happens fast, leaving you chasing ...

The largest data centers can guzzle millions of gallons of fresh water a day. Roughly 40% are located in the most ...

Microsoft's sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services. ... Carbon emissions are embodied in the computer chips inside the data center, too.

Here's what we know about the kind of facility that Microsoft would bring to the site. Data centers don't require many workers. For the last 10 years, the Potawatomi Business Development Corp. has ...

Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional solution – dropping a data center to the bottom of the sea – and found that it was more reliable than land-based facilities.