Microsoft Readies Quincy Data Center

Microsoft’s massive new data center in Quincy, Wash. is scheduled to “go live” on March 27, according to the San Antonio Express-News, which got a tour of the new facility ^[1] as an advance preview of a similar data center Microsoft is planning in San Antonio ^[2]. The paper notes that there’s no sign in front of the 470,000 square foot center, “but everyone in town knows where it’s located.” An excerpt:

It’s easy to get lost inside Microsoft’s main building, which contains long halls with a tile floor and a maze of rooms centering around five 12,000-square-foot brain centers that contain tens of thousands of computer servers. Each server room has two adjoining rooms lined with refrigerator-sized air-conditioning units to keep the temperature between 60 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Another room contains row after row of batteries to kick in for 18 seconds if a power failure should ccur before the truck-sized backup generators fire up.

The new Microsoft facility is one of three major data center construction projects in Quincy, a small town in central Washington state with abundant supply of open space and cheap hydroelectric power. Yahoo ^[3] and Sabey Corp. ^[4] are also planning large facilities in the Quincy area.

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[1] tour of the new facility: http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA031107.6R.MicrosoftDataCenter.2aecaa6.html

[2] planning in San Antonio: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jan/19/microsoft_confirms_huge_san_antonio_center.html

[3] Yahoo: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/yahoo-index.html

[4] Sabey Corp.: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/Aug/08/sabey_plans_100m_facility_in_wenatchee_wa.html

[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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