Microsoft investing $670m in Iowa data centre

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Microsoft is investing $670 million to expand its data centre in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Christian Belady, general manager of Data Center Services at Microsoft, told Des Moines Register that the investment will help improve products like Xbox Live and Office 365. "The expansion supports the growing demand for Microsoft's cloud services," he said.

According to Jeff Henshaw, group program manager of Xbox Incubation & Prototyping, Microsoft's cloud will provide developers with the CPU and storage equivalent of an additional three Xbox One consoles.

"We're doing that flat out so that any game developer can assume that there's roughly three times the resources immediately available to their game, so they can build bigger, persistent levels that are more inclusive for players," he said.

Xbox One will support a "more powerful, more personal and more intelligent" Xbox Live service, according to Marc Whitten, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the online service.

At Xbox 360's launch, 3,000 servers powered the online system. That number now stands at 15,000. Xbox One's Xbox Live service will be powered by 300,000, "more than the entire computing power of the world in 1999", Whitten said earlier this month.

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KatsumiPosted:

This is nice to see. Hopefully this can improve our gaming experience

LeapPosted:

MW2-Rush My Goodness 670 Million dollars, for 300,000 Servers. :O


That's alot of money! lol seriously.

ArtroPosted:

All I hear is Microsoft buying everything out because they have to much money

yo2434Posted:

Graqhical
triksta2k11 "Microsoft's cloud will provide developers with the CPU and storage equivalent of an additional three Xbox One consoles." Of an additional 3 Xbox consoles? So does that mean that Xbone will be now have the same power as 4 consoles in one? MEANING better graphics than PS4?


No, it will have more storage for u to use at your disposal. Pretty much an extra 1.5 Terrabyte.


From my understanding it will allow more cpu processing capabilities, but not gpu capabilities. Thus the graphics wouldn't change from normal but the size and expanse of the games will expand from this. Although I could be wrong completely so don't quote me on that.

IlIuminatiPosted:

Zeff 300k that is a substantial amount.
Substantial....Thats a lot!

ZeffPosted:

300k that is a substantial amount.

MaggardoPosted:

My Goodness 670 Million dollars, for 300,000 Servers. :O

TaigaAisakaPosted:

Dapper Hopefully this will be beneficial to us as the consumers.


I'm hoping the same, would be such a let down that they invest that much money and people aren't satisfied with what they are doing.

WSMFPPosted:

Hopefully this will be beneficial to us as the consumers.

Snowfl4k3zPosted:

Soo... customer service will be faster?


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