Is Microsoft preparing to construct two dozen gargantuan new data centers?
March 3, 2008So the rumours are flying around that Microsoft may soon announce plans to construct about two dozen humongous new data centers. These would be around 500,000 square feet, for a total square footage ov about 12 million. Crammed to the rafters with servers.
To put that size in perspective, according to Wikipedia the average Wal Mart Supercenter is around 197,000 square feet. So each of these new Microsoft data centers would be two-and-a-half times the size of your friendly neighborhood Wal Mart Supercenter.
That just boggles the mind. I can’t even imagine how many servers that represents, how much compute power, how much electric power. What a gargantuan project.