This video explains the Microsoft data centers which has been supporting various systems/services such as Bing, Outlook, Xbox Live, Office365 and Microsoft Dynamics and more than 2 billion people around the world. This is supported by the extensive global fiber optic network which connects our PCs and mobile phones at the speed of light delivery and execution of queries. To add up these data centers support $20 billion in over 70 countries. From 1989 to 2004 the data centers were designed to control operating temperature environments. In 2007 the first generation data center was designed/opened at Quincy, WA. This facility has the size of 10 football fields and has high-performance servers with high-density racks separated by hot and cool air aisles along with traditional floor chillers, air handling equipment to give UPS system the support it needs. It ensures the operation to be interrupted in the event of natural disaster or during short term power interruption. A high-speed robust fiber-optic network connects this data center with other major hubs and Internet users. Edge compute nodes host workloads closer to the end users to reduce latency provide zero redundancy and increase overall service resiliency which supports engineers work around the clock to help ensure services are persistently available to customers.
In 2009, modular data center concept was used to build the Chicago data center. Being the size of 10 football fields, it reduced the infrastructure cost and the deployment time and uses 2400 servers and thus increasing sustainability and resilience. This enabled Microsoft to meet the customer demands for services within hours. This facility significantly reduced packaging waste and carbon emissions. This facility also uses waterside economization which enabled cooling effectiveness (PUE) without much power consumption (Chicago data center has a PUE 1.15-1.22). In 2009, Dublin generation 3 facility which has the size of 7 football stadiums was developed. This uses air side economization for cooling the units. The air handling devices draws cold outside air to absorb heat which maintains constant room temperature. This facility uses less than one percent of annual water consumption a traditional data would use and improve the efficiency by 50%.
In 2010, fourth generation for data center design building which uses airside concept from Dublin into a truly modular design. It uses pre-manufactured state of the art plug and play modular components and made using recyclable materials such as steel and aluminum. This reduced the entire construction time and also maintains the inside temperature between 50 and 90 deg F and 22% RH with the efficient PUEs and using 100% renewable hydropower for its operation. Microsoft uses its own data center repository calls to record power consumption and allow precise cost allocation to our internal business groups. In addition to it, the data centers has been protected by extensive camera, inner outer parameters thus increasing the security at each level. The Microsoft data centers has FISMA certification and several third party to verify their capabilities powering the cloud networking.
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