On: Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?

[breischl]

The newest Azure data center in Iowa(?) was going to be open air. Basically a pile of these containers in a field, with a big fence over it and a roof similar to a big car-port (no walls). They figured it was going to be better for cooling.

[ams6110 → breischl]

Iowa? Doesn't sound like a great idea, they have tornadoes there, which can easily throw shipping containers around.

[breischl → ams6110]

Yep, outside Des Moines. I don't have a reference for the rest of it, that was from conversations with MS employees.

http://www.eweek.com/cloud/microsoft-parks-cloud-over-700m-i...