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When it comes to data center design, Christian Belady isn’t afraid to shake things up.

Dell plans to build a 350,000 square foot data center on land it recently purchased in Quincy, Washington, while developer Sabey Corp. will build more than 508,000 square feet of mission-critical facilities on a nearby property.

Software giant Microsoft is considering a site at an Alamance County industrial parkto build a massive data storage center facility.

After a construction pause during the recession, big high-tech companies and wholesale data center providers are repositioning for growth in a new era of server virtualization.

After Washington state created a tax break for building data centers in rural areas, Microsoft is now expanding its data center in Quincy.

America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.

CHICAGO–On the outside, Microsoft’s massive new data center resembles the other buildings in the industrial area. Even the inside of the building doesn’t look like that much. The ground floor looks like a large indoor parking lot filled with a few parked trailers. It’s what’s inside those trailers, though, that is the key to Microsoft’s […]

CHICAGO–On most days it takes the right access badge and a biometric scan to make it inside the doors of Microsoft’s massive data center. But on Wednesday, the company allowed a group of reporters, customers, and partners to tour the 700,000 square foot facility. The data center, along with another just-opened facility in Dublin, Ireland […]

Experts are weighing in on possible plans for the “huge” data center Apple is building in North Carolina. One believes it is to bring content delivery in-house, while another is betting on a cloud computing initiative. Apple isn’t even close to bringing its planned east coast data center online, but there is already some speculation […]

The state of Washington’s decision to build a $300 million data center in Olympia is being challenged by legislators who say the state could save taxpayers money by using cloud computing services. On Monday the State Finance Committee approved the sale of $300 million in bonds to fund the construction of a new data center […]