Microsoft looking to invest $2.7 billion in a new Dutch data center

Microsoft is looking to invest in the planning and construction of a new data centre at an manufacture site in Noord-Holland, Netherlands. The price tag on the project? 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion), which would see a new "green" information centre congenital on a site that will accept upwards 40 acres worth of footing near the A7 highway.

Numerous countries were reportedly in talks with Microsoft to secure a contract, simply the decision was awarded to the Netherlands. How would the data centre be power efficient and supplied by dark-green free energy? Local greenhouses use ground-coupled rut exchangers and produce more electricity than required, which will open upwardly new doors for Microsoft'southward new power-hungry project. Energy supplier Tennet is said to exist on the program every bit backup.

Heat would too exist transferred from the datacentre to the greenhouses, making it a rather lucrative deal for both parties. So what will this mean for consumers? We could well exist looking at infrastructure existence deployed for Xbox One and other services provided by the company. Calculation a data centre to Europe will provide yet more scale to Microsoft's operations in the region. Microsoft already has a local data heart in Amsterdam for its Azure web services.

It's still early on days for this new projection, and then it's worth noting this deal could autumn through completely.

Source: Tweakers (Dutch); cheers, MartinSpire, for the heads upwards and translation!

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