Microsoft Cloud Bet?: $11M Land Deal for Giant Data Center
December 30, 2013
Grazed from The VarGuy. Author: DH Kass.
Microsoft (MSFT) has plunked down $11 million to buy 200 acres of industrial land in rural Port of Quincy, WA to build a second data center there. Is this another huge bet on Windows Azure, Office 365, Xbox Live and other cloud services? Perhaps. The new facility will triple the size of Microsoft’s current 470,000 square foot server plant.
The vendor has some history in Quincy–first setting up a data center there in 2007 on 75 acres of agricultural land, attracted by cheap electrical power fed by hydroelectric generators drawing water from the nearby Columbia River–and three years later signaling its intention to expand its facilities in the area…
According to a report in the Seattle Times, the latest deal is said to be among the largest in Quincy’s history, with Microsoft paying $4 million for 60 acres of land already owned by the city and another $7 million for 142 acres of neighboring parcels Quincy will buy from private owners and sell back to the IT giant…
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