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Microsoft to turn on Chicago, Dublin datacenters in July | |
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| Time: 15:09 EST/20:09 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft has been building out its datacenter network for the past few years. In July, the company plans to bring its Chicago and Dublin, Ireland, datacenters online. In January of this year, Microsoft reportedly was scaling back on its Chicago facility, as part of its overall cost-cutting moves. But according to a June 29 post to the ms datacenters blog, the Chicago facility will go live on July 20 and Dublin on July 1. |
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| #1 By 61 (173.65.116.97) at Monday, June 29, 2009 05:35:29 PM |
| I can never understand why companies build/use data centers in areas where real estate comes at a huge premium. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Tuesday, June 30, 2009 08:55:05 AM |
| #1: Because they get massive incentives such as tax breaks to move there. Then once they're there, they can put the local gov't over a barrel. Either give them what they want now, or they will move and you will lose a lot of jobs. |
| #3 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:13:24 AM |
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...and the national critical infrastructure and how it is architected have zip to do with it. no more that the proximity to major water ways for power and cooling, or large centers of population....
nope. no practical issues drive such decisions at all... it's all just greedy companies and hopeful governments taking it all to the man yet again... |
| #4 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:51:29 AM |
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"The initial specs for the facility were to include 40 megawatts of power available at 5 cents a kilowatt hour, with a dedicated substation on the 12-acre property.
Microsoft has been keenly focused on power costs in its data center site location efforts. While 5 cents per kilowatt hour is in the midrange of average state-by-state power costs, it is lower than rates found near many major data center markets such as California (9 cents per kWh) or northern New Jersey (11 center per kWh). Microsoft’s data center in Quincy runs on hyrdro power that costs less than 2 centers per kilowatt hour, while San Antonio has the cheapest power in Texas, which is a favored location for data center development because it has its own power grid." http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/05/microsoft-plans-500m-illinois-data-center/ 40MW at 5 cents = 2000$ per hour 40MW at 11 cents = 4400$ per hour |
| #5 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:50:19 AM |
| #3: That stuff is already factored into the short list for sites. The winner, so to speak, is the site that offers the most concessions on top of what the company needs. We've seen this game lately with Intel and Nokia, if I remember correctly. |
| #6 By 28801 (71.58.225.185) at Tuesday, June 30, 2009 03:49:14 PM |
| Let's not forget the jobs that these cities get in return. |
| #7 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at Wednesday, July 01, 2009 04:38:58 PM |
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All their efforts to situate data centers near the least costly power, will be for naught if "crap and tax" gets passed by those that think carbon dixode is a poison even though it is what they themselves, in part, exhale and without which life would cease to exist on this planet.
Expect Microsoft and the rest of us to experience double and triple whatever they are paying for power now if that legislative abortion passes even though our legislators have not read nor care to read its contents. |
| #8 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Wednesday, July 01, 2009 08:42:16 PM |
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A-Freaking-Men, Jdhawk!
Our only hope now is to allow the dems to own all this crap and let them drown in it in 10 and 12 (if we make it that long). The stuff going on is insane! If this isn't national socialism, what the heck is? |
| #9 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, July 02, 2009 08:18:29 AM |
| Wow, it didn't take many posts to go from data centre locations to Ketchum ranting about his pet boogeymen, the Democrats & socialism. |
| #10 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Thursday, July 02, 2009 05:52:59 PM |
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Carbon Tax = 15$ per ton of CO2.
Coal produces 3 ton's of CO2 per ton burned. 45$ per ton of coal. In the East coal can go for 45$ per ton ... and in the west as little as 12$ per ton. Double the price in the East. 3.5x price in the west. That will help the economy. Coal produces 45% or so of US electricity. Currently, the two main satellite temperature measuring sites have the world: .05C above the temperature 30 years ago: http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Warming_Look.html#UAH MSU .09C above the temperature 30 years ago: http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Warming_Look.html#RSS The destruction of the US economy because temperatures are less than 1/10th of a degree warmer. This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 17:57. |
| #11 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Thursday, July 02, 2009 06:03:05 PM |
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#11 And I do understand why Latch is cheering on the destruction of the US economy. His country Canada will be benefitting.
I hear Tim Hortons is moving it headquarters back to Canada because corporate taxes are cheaper. "The company states that Canada’s lower tax rates and the ability to more easily expand internationally is the motivation for the move." http://www.examiner.com/x-13642-Coffee-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Tim-Hortons-coffee-houses-fleeing-US-for-tax-relief Expect to see a lot more of this when the Climate Bill passes. I suspect Microsoft will reconsider US based datacenters. |
| #12 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Friday, July 03, 2009 11:04:29 PM |
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By the way, the UAH June anomaly is in.
.001C = Zero http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/03/uah-global-temperature-anomaly-for-june-09-zero/#more-9082 |
| #13 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Friday, July 03, 2009 11:04:41 PM |
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Zero. This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Friday, July 03, 2009 at 23:05. |
| #14 By 28801 (71.58.225.185) at Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:00:23 AM |
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First you argue that the Earth's warming is a natural cycle. Now you're apparently arguing that the Earth isn't warming at all.
Just pick one and we'll move on! |
| #15 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:22:45 PM |
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A cycle implies up and down. It got a little warmer. Now it is getting cooler.
CO2 keeps going up ... therefore it isn't CO2 that caused the warming. Sea level .... which had been rising a tiny bit each year since the end of the last ice age ... actually stopped rising in 2006. See the blue line: http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_noib_ns_global.pdf "Global sea level has fluctuated widely in the recent geologic past. It stood 4-6 meters above the present during the last interglacial period, 125,000 years ago, but was 120 m lower at the peak of the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago." In fact if you look at the graph in the article one can see that sea-levels rose at a much faster rate during different warming periods. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/ This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 14:50. |
| #16 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at Sunday, July 05, 2009 06:41:49 PM |
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Just to clarify.
120m in 20000 years. 6mm per year. Man made global warmers claim a 3mm a year rise is evidence of man made global warming. 0mm rise in 3 years is ... cricket, cricket, cricket .... not to be commented on. One last thing. When the oceans stop rising ... that could be the pause before global cooling starts to make oceans shrink. Which means the next ice age (which is due) could be starting. Or ... if you head isn't too far up your nether regions, it might mean that 400,000 year cycles (and all the other subcycles in them like Milankovitch) can't be explained by simplistic chicken-little pronouncements by Al Gore. This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 18:44. |
