First Look: Microsoft's Quincy Cloud Farm

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First Look: Microsoft’s Quincy Cloud Farm

First Look: Microsoft’s Quincy Cloud Farm
- By: Rich Miller
  January 4th, 2011
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An air-handling unit is lowered onto the top of an IT-PAC container, which is already pre-populated with servers, at the new Microsoft data center in Quincy, Washington.

Microsoft has competed construction on its new modular “cloud farm” data center in Quincy, Washington. The design of the next-generation facility is driven by Microsoft’s use of data center containers that come packed with up to 2,000 servers. We’ve put together a photo feature offering a closer look at the modular data center technology being deployed in the new Quincy facility. Check them out at Inside ‘Microsoft’s New Quincy Cloud Farm.’
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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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