As Microsoft forges ahead with its myriad cloud-computing projects,
Windows 7 Starter, it is expanding its datacenter footprint just as speedily.A variety of Chicago-area media are reporting that Microsoft will probably be the tenant of a new 440,0000-plus square-foot datacenter in Northlake,
microsoft Office 2010 License, Unwell. Estimates place the cost of the new facility at additional than $500 million.Microsoft also has built and/or is creating datacenter amenities in San Antonio,
Genuine Office 2010, Dublin,
Buy Office 2010, Santa Clara and Quincy, Wash. (LiveSide.Net managed to obtain some great shots lately with the Quincy compound — from outside the fence.)Microsoft;s growing datacenter spending has been at the heart of the company;s continued hefty Online Systems Business infrastructure expenses.(Image of Quincy, Wash.,
Purchase Office 2007, Microsoft datacenter facilities courtesy of Liveside.Net.)