Microsoft spending US$1B on new data centers
Prepping for growth in the Internet era can be costly, as Microsoft is finding out. The software company is ponying up more than US$1 billion for two new data centres near Chicago and Dublin, Ireland, Microsoft confirmed this week. Full story »
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