Photo Tour: A Container Data Center

What does a container data center look like? We have additional photos of Microsoft’s new data center in Chicago, which is optimized for 40-foot data center containers holding thousands of servers each. Check out our photo tour ^[1] of the new facility, which provides additional views of the “container canyon” and the high-density server configurations inside the containers, plus a link to video of a container being installed.

NAVIGATION

• Inside Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center ^[2]
• Center-Aisle Container ^[3]
• Side-Aisle Container ^[4]
• Power and Cooling Infrastructure ^[5]
• Microsoft Chicago: The Road Ahead ^[6]

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[1] photo tour: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/inside-microsofts-chicago-data-center/

[2] Inside Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../inside-microsofts-chicago-data-center/

[3] Center-Aisle Container: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../microsoft-chicago-center-aisle-container/

[4] Side-Aisle Container: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../microsoft-chicago-side-aisle-container/

[5] Power and Cooling Infrastructure: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../microsoft-chicago-infrastructure/

[6] Microsoft Chicago: The Road Ahead: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com../microsoft-chicago-the-road-ahead/

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

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