Take a look at this photos
What do you think this is? A manufacturing facility, a water treatment plant (what with all of those tubes??)
Well it is to do with computers and this belongs to Microsoft. These are pictures of the new Microsoft Data Center in Chicago. The new Azure Services run out of this data center.
Photo 2 & 3 - What you're seeing is a tiny section of the 7.5 miles of cooling pipes inside Microsoft's new 700,000-foot Chicago data center, which is one of the—if not the—largest in the world.
This is one of the largest data centers in the world and MS will use this to learn and fine tune its data center strategy as this is just the first in a series of data centers that MS will build
Even the inside of the building doesn't look like that much. The ground floor looks like a large indoor parking lot filled with a few parked trailers.
It's what's inside those trailers, though, that is the key to Microsoft's cloud-computing efforts. Each of the shipping containers in the Chicago data center houses anywhere from 1,800 to 2,500 servers, each of which can be serving up e-mail, managing instant messages, or running applications for Microsoft's soon-to-be-launched cloud-based operating system--Windows Azure.
Read complete article at Inside one of the world's largest data centers
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