(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Technology giant Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) announced on Thursday it has begun constructing a second data center at its site in Quincy, Washington, confirmed a Microsoft spokesperson.
However, the company declined to reveal any further details about the data center build.
Last August, the company announced it would move its Azure platform out of the Quincy data center after the local government turned down a proposed bill to give data center operators tax incentives.
Recently, the Washington government restored these tax breaks for data center operators, prompting Microsoft to build a second data center in Quincy. The facility will be the first to use its innovative new data center design.
The company looks to its existing data center in Quincy, which was completed in the spring of 2007, as a working example of sustainable data center design.
The data center is entirely powered by hydroelectricity, uses real-time power-use monitoring of all systems, offers high server utilization and has access to a water treatment plant that resuses wastewater.
Microsoft recently announced it would take a new approach in the facilty’s design in an effort to make the data center even more efficient, which Kevin Timmons, general manager of the company’s Data Center Services division, unveiled at last month’s DatacenterDynamics conference.
According to Timmons, the new method would ship pre-assembled and pre-configured blocks of equipment called IT Preassembled Components to its future data center sites worldwide.
These blocks will contain varying amounts of servers and air handlers, which can be cost-effectively manufactured and pre-packaged anywhere in the world.
They can then be shipped where extra capacity is required and integrated into the company’s power and network infrastructure.
The method will allow Microsoft to quickly deploy any number of servers, reducing the total cost of ownership.
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