Microsoft opens ‘mega data centre’
September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Cloud Computing
Software giant Microsoft has opened a $500 million data centre in Dublin after two years of work on the extensive project, writes Gavin Daly.
The facility at the Grange Castle Business Park covers 303,000 square feet, or almost seven acres more than twice the size of the playing surface at Croke Park. The centre is part of Microsoft’s investment in cloud computing, and houses tens of thousands of computer servers running the company’s online software and services.
It is the company’s first so-called ‘mega data centre’ outside the US, and is seen as an important investment by the firm, which already employs about 1,200 people full-time in Dublin.