With all eyes on what Microsoft is doing in the online-advertising space, it's easy to give short shrift to the datacenter and back-end infrastructure that is powering not just adCenter, but all ...

Microsoft officials recently peeled back the covers a bit on its datacenter futures by sharing some high-level strategy goals for its "Generation 4" modular datacenter plans. But this ...

Microsoft has started work on a new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In a community blog update, Microsoft said it is ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced plans to open its fourth datacenter region in India. It will be in Hyderabad, India, and will be the largest datacenter investment in India from Microsoft.

An agreement of sorts was made in a local water war.The multi-party memorandum of understanding aims to provide water and ...

The agreement sets a course for who would provide the utilities, plus a TIF district. It includes addressing Granger's failed ...

Microsoft announced the "general availability" commercial release of its Hotpatch capability for virtual machines, which just works with the Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition product.

Michael Manos, the general manager of Microsoft’s Data Center Services division, is leaving the company to work for wholesale datacenter provider Digital Realty rust. Manos has been leading ...

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.

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

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Microsoft hopes to play alongside Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and others in developing “virtual datacenter” software that will make it easier to manage ...