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Microsoft also owns facilities at Wiseman Blvd. It also owns a data center at Rogers Road, a property it bought from Chevron Corp. Please Sign In and use this article's on page print button to print this article. Crane Watch. Related Content. Report: U. One of SA's largest credit unions plans potential corporate HQ.

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The Boydton campus is also about connectivity. The Trans-Atlantic cable, which is co-owned by Microsoft and Facebook, can stream up to terabits of fata per second, according to recent tests. That data flows across high-speed fiber from Virginia Beach to the Microsoft campus in Mecklenburg County — and from there, out to the Azure cloud and the world.

Land and Expand, at Galactic Scale The Mecklenburg deals are the largest of a series of land buys by Microsoft as it expands its cloud infrastructure. They reflect a broader trend in which both hyperscale cloud operators and data center service providers are preparing to build ginormous campuses. Microsoft has also acquired acres of property for campuses in Goodyear, Arizona and about acres for new data centers near Leesburg in Northern Virginia.

Google recently locked down tax incentives for a new data center on a massive 1, acre parcel of land near Reno, Nevada in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Park. The Switch Citadel Campus , also in Reno, features a 1. Digital Realty plans a massive multi-tenant data center campus on a acre piece of land next to Dulles Airport in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Digital Dulles campus will create 7.

It has now morphed from companies reserving nearby data halls to devouring nearby land parcels. When data center operators find a development sweet spot with capacity and great economics, you can expect these sites to house larger and larger cloud campuses.

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Comments Hi Rich: A great article on Microsoft cloud selection site!