Microsoft: Ashburn Data Center

Microsoft has been expanding its data center capacity around the world quickly and aggressively to support its growing cloud services business. Microsoft has substantial in-house data center design expertise and its facilities evolve with every new build. The Boydton site is not an exception.In the company’s first build in Boydton, the ITPACs were placed outside, without roofs or walls, with an open-air “electrical breezeway” powering them. The phase also included colocation rooms with enclosed server PODs. As it transforms itself into a cloud-services-centric company, Microsoft has been on data center expansion kick. In addition to its Azure Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings, it is also now providing products in its popular Office suite on a Software-as-a-Service basis under the Office 365 brand.