Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters? Comment Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in ...

The obvious benefit of dunking a datacenter into the ocean is natural cooling. Datacenters run hot— very hot—and it can be both challenging and expensive to keep them cool.

The first phase alone of Microsoft’s data center in Mount Pleasant will likely require the same amount of electricity needed to power more than 300,000 homes, according to new information ...

Microsoft is experimenting with two-phase liquid immersion cooling tanks, used to run datacenter workloads.