Built atop VMware’s vCloud Air infrastructure

More users for ’the Secret Region’

With fewer components and a heat exchanger made of stainless steel

The pair want to enter a 200MW PPA, but this could be thwarted by the Energy Choice Initiative ballot 

The company’s third fully owned facility in the area, with another under construction and a lease in two CyrusOne locations 

Equipped with CarnotJet immersion system from Green Revolution Cooling

Microsoft “taking steps” to drop case against US government following the federal policy update

As competitor Accenture is granted the ’Data Center Support Services’ contract

Helped along by a new subdivision: Azure Government Secret

After the DoJ submitted a petition backed by 33 states 

And offices in San Antonio, Chicago 

But won’t say why

With phase one of five expected to come online early 2019 

To improve usability and ease of access for enterprise cloud applications

Meaning more capacity and more redundancy

Initially in the US, soon in the EU 

Which it says will undergo two expansions 

The company’s first in Canada

Researchers suggest cloud operators incur higher costs by accounting only for energy consumption 

BlueCache was designed to be as efficient as DRAM whilst making considerable energy savings

With some relying on redundancies, and others glad to have built facilities outside of flood areas

Almost doubling its data center footprint 

Surprisingly, the group dedicated to resource efficiency and sustainability is against unregulated carbon emissions

And will be handing out $500k for the 2018 fiscal year