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Microsoft Corp. is continuing to expand one of its data centers in West Des Moines, adding to the recent growth of the company's local investments in data centers and expanding the city's economy ...
In July 2022 in West Des Moines, the month before OpenAI completed its training of GPT-4, Microsoft pumped in about 11.5 million gallons of water to its Iowa data centers, equal to about 6% of all ...
A Microsoft data center is seen near Interstate 35, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines. Microsoft has been amassing a cluster of data centers to power its cloud computing services for more ...
Construction continues on a Microsoft data center on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 in West Des Moines, Iowa. That first building is expected to employee at least 25 full-time workers.
Microsoft acquired the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer on April 25, 2008, for $1.191 billion (~$1.66 billion in 2023) to boost its search technology. [14] On May 10, 2011, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype Technologies, creator of the VoIP service Skype, for $8.5 billion (~$11.4 billion in 2023). [15]
The data center will be constructed on about 500 acres of farmland Microsoft purchased in two separate transactions in 2023 and early this year after the property was annexed into the city at the ...
Columbia Data Center is Microsoft's data center in Quincy, Washington. Property at Quincy was purchased in 2006; the building opened in April, 2007; [3] and the data center reached operational status in May, 2007. [4] It was said to be the largest data center in the world as of 2015. [5]
Microsoft is expanding its West Des Moines Data Center in Iowa for the third time, according to a press release from the Greater Des Moines Partnership released today. The new addition will have a ...