Microsoft investing $670m in Iowa data centre

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Microsoft is investing $670 million to expand its data centre in West Des Moines, Iowa.

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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WipPosted:

Sorcery I certainly hope that all of this pays of and makes for a better system for the gamers, not just more profit for Microsoft and its investors.


Agreed if al this money helps the servers and such then I think it's a good investment. If not it's a waste

SorceryPosted:

I certainly hope that all of this pays of and makes for a better system for the gamers, not just more profit for Microsoft and its investors.

xM0D3RZxUMadBroPosted:

HandGunsOnly
OzAiRJoRdAn
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generalhunter Xbox LIVE will always be better than that garbage on PSN

What did the PSN have to do with this article? Have you experienced psn on ps4 yet? No. Do you own a ps4? Do you even know how servers operate? Doubt it. People like you like to make irrelevant comments for what?
Where did you see anything involving the Psn?Nowhere.
I'm guessing the psn must not be that "garbage" if a genius like yourself is giving it an unrelated mention.

He never mentioned anything about PS4. Just simply stating that Xbox live is better than PS4


Calm it man. PSN isn't new its been going for a while.


To Multi quote this, the xbox 360 the xbox one and the PS4 had nothing to do with his comment, Idk if you guys are reading what the guy said. But he mentioned their online services. Not the consoles themselves. I'm personally an xbox fanboy, but give Sony a chance. They worked hard and still do to come through and fight the xbox in the console wars. I personally think they are pretty matched up, just please read comment more carefully next time. He wasn't mentioning that consoles, but their online services.

HandGunsOnlyPosted:

OzAiRJoRdAn
III_XBOI_III
generalhunter Xbox LIVE will always be better than that garbage on PSN

What did the PSN have to do with this article? Have you experienced psn on ps4 yet? No. Do you own a ps4? Do you even know how servers operate? Doubt it. People like you like to make irrelevant comments for what?
Where did you see anything involving the Psn?Nowhere.
I'm guessing the psn must not be that "garbage" if a genius like yourself is giving it an unrelated mention.

He never mentioned anything about PS4. Just simply stating that Xbox live is better than PS4


Calm it man. PSN isn't new its been going for a while.

OzAiRJoRdAnPosted:

III_XBOI_III
generalhunter Xbox LIVE will always be better than that garbage on PSN

What did the PSN have to do with this article? Have you experienced psn on ps4 yet? No. Do you own a ps4? Do you even know how servers operate? Doubt it. People like you like to make irrelevant comments for what?
Where did you see anything involving the Psn?Nowhere.
I'm guessing the psn must not be that "garbage" if a genius like yourself is giving it an unrelated mention.

He never mentioned anything about PS4. Just simply stating that Xbox live is better than PS4

TTG_imNicoPosted:

Oo 670M Wow

TaigaAisakaPosted:

III_XBOI_III
generalhunter Xbox LIVE will always be better than that garbage on PSN

What did the PSN have to do with this article? Have you experienced psn on ps4 yet? No. Do you own a ps4? Do you even know how servers operate? Doubt it. People like you like to make irrelevant comments for what?
Where did you see anything involving the Psn?Nowhere.
I'm guessing the psn must not be that "garbage" if a genius like yourself is giving it an unrelated mention.


He probably just posted it to post, or to try and start a flame way between the console fanboys :/

GoldPeakTeaPosted:

What a waste of money. You know what they could have done with that?

ColorsPosted:

Sony don't have money like this either lol

III_XBOI_IIIPosted:

generalhunter Xbox LIVE will always be better than that garbage on PSN

What did the PSN have to do with this article? Have you experienced psn on ps4 yet? No. Do you own a ps4? Do you even know how servers operate? Doubt it. People like you like to make irrelevant comments for what?
Where did you see anything involving the Psn?Nowhere.
I'm guessing the psn must not be that "garbage" if a genius like yourself is giving it an unrelated mention.