He said the current concept was still being developed Microsoft will announce a next generation data center in the coming months. The ITPAC - or IT pre assembled component unit would have a PUE of ...

Microsoft isn't the only big tech firm that is currently extending the life cycles of its hardware. Both Amazon Web Services and Google both added another year to the lifecycle of their cloud ...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure is partnering with Microsoft to transform access to Internet of Things (IoT) data for buildings. The collaboration will enable interoperability between Siemens' digital ...

Tech giant Microsoft is announcing that it’s contributing more specifications for its critical data center technology to the Open Compute Project (OCP), giving other companies and hardware ...

Microsoft began testing underwater data centers in 2018. While the company saw promising results, it no longer has any active underwater data centers. The tech giant will, however, apply lessons ...

Microsoft Corp. is donating more of its data center designs to the Open Compute Project.. The company also provided some updates on its existing data center projects, and other new initiatives it ...

At the Ignite developer conference today, Microsoft unveiled two new chips designed for its data center infrastructure: the Azure Integrated HSM and the Azure Boost DPU.

A million servers. Microsoft has more than 1 million servers across all of its data centers, which run cloud services such as Windows Azure, Office 365, and Bing, as well as Microsoft's internal ...

Microsoft sought the land to build a data center to bolster its cloud services business. The purchase of the land in the Alviso area in 2017 worked out to roughly $1.13 million an acre.

Microsoft Gambles on Fuel Cells to Power Data Centers. If the bet pays off, it could mean data centers no longer need substation-sized links to the power grid. September 28, 2017 • ...

Christian Belady, a longtime data-center engineer who manages Microsoft’s data-center design and research, has hyperbole at the ready to describe the company’s push to resist traditional thinking.