Microsoft expects savings from new datacenter
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft has built a new modular datacenter to house most of the servers the company uses for research and development of its products previously scattered around the campus. Its objective is to drive down costs related to those servers as well as to be easier on the environment.
Many global companies are going with green -- or "greener" -- datacenters, so Microsoft's move is just one of the latest, but perhaps one of the more innovative in that respect.
Dubbed Redmond Ridge 1, the recently-opened datacenter is designed to use one-third of the energy demanded by those same servers when they are located in individual labs in office buildings around Microsoft's sprawling Redmond, Washington campus.