Microsoft investing $670m in Iowa data centre
Christian Belady, general manager of Data Center Services at Microsoft, told Des Moines Register that the investment will help improve products like Xbox Live and Office 365. "The expansion supports the growing demand for Microsoft's cloud services," he said.
According to Jeff Henshaw, group program manager of Xbox Incubation & Prototyping, Microsoft's cloud will provide developers with the CPU and storage equivalent of an additional three Xbox One consoles.
"We're doing that flat out so that any game developer can assume that there's roughly three times the resources immediately available to their game, so they can build bigger, persistent levels that are more inclusive for players," he said.
Xbox One will support a "more powerful, more personal and more intelligent" Xbox Live service, according to Marc Whitten, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the online service.
At Xbox 360's launch, 3,000 servers powered the online system. That number now stands at 15,000. Xbox One's Xbox Live service will be powered by 300,000, "more than the entire computing power of the world in 1999", Whitten said earlier this month.
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Fireflasher361Posted:
Yin All dem monies... So, they are spending $670 million on servers and they spent $1 billion on exclusive games. What part of this makes them money hungry? (Which is what a lot of people say about Microsoft.) It seems to me they are shelling out money for good, but risky, investments. It looks as though their "money hungry" habits have paid off for everyone.We need more people that think like you in this world.
TaigaAisakaPosted:
liamcole123GG_Katie_GG There gonna lose some amount of money from that and i think its pretty pointless!
If it's going to improve the quality of Xbox LIVE then I see no problem with it, so long as the cost of Xbox LIVE is pushed up, that is.
I wouldn't have a problem if they pushed the cost for XBL. As long as it isn't like $30 for 1 month I'm fine with it.
MobOfTheDeadPosted:
I live 30 minutes away from this place! This was on my local news a few weeks ago, and they said Microsoft was doing server work at the facility, and I was immediately like, "Xbox One!" Thank god some servers will be this close to me so I will have less chance of lag.
YinPosted:
All dem monies... So, they are spending $670 million on servers and they spent $1 billion on exclusive games. What part of this makes them money hungry? (Which is what a lot of people say about Microsoft.) It seems to me they are shelling out money for good, but risky, investments. It looks as though their "money hungry" habits have paid off for everyone.
_RarityPosted:
GG_Katie_GGliamcole123GG_Katie_GG There gonna lose some amount of money from that and i think its pretty pointless!
If it's going to improve the quality of Xbox LIVE then I see no problem with it, so long as the cost of Xbox LIVE is pushed up, that is.
Yes but that's bad for all the users on Xbox we don't want it to be dearer we wan't it to be cheaper!
I agree if it improves the quality there not gonna loss money but we want it to be cheaper
GG_Katie_GGPosted:
generalhunter Xbox LIVE will always be better than that garbage on PSN
I agree with that although this year i think its gonna be pretty close! :P
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