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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TendPosted:

That's crazy from 3,000 servers to 300,000.

GraqhicalPosted:

triksta2k11 "Microsoft's cloud will provide developers with the CPU and storage equivalent of an additional three Xbox One consoles." Of an additional 3 Xbox consoles? So does that mean that Xbone will be now have the same power as 4 consoles in one? MEANING better graphics than PS4?


No, it will have more storage for u to use at your disposal. Pretty much an extra 1.5 Terrabyte.

MentalistPosted:

TopNotchKiNG For all the noobs, this basically means that your Xbox One Console is actually 3 Consoles in one, in terms or power. This meaning that say the Xbox One has a 1.8Ghz per Core on its six-core processor, if you were to take 1.8 and times it by 6, then times that by 3, that it the total power of the Xbox Ones CPU. Also the actual space avalible to devs on the 50GB Blu Ray disk is now multiplied by 3 bringing it to a grand total of 150GB of total space that a dev can use to store there game data. The current Xbox 360 only has 8GB of Disk storage and for certain games like 4GB of Cloud which is nothing compared to Xbox One. In other terms, the Xbox One would allow a dev to create an entire open works game of the planet, including all continents, mountains and more and then they would still have data left over for other game aspects.


Thanks for clearing this up! :D Helped me alot

ExoticWolfsPosted:

TopNotchKiNG For all the noobs, this basically means that your Xbox One Console is actually 3 Consoles in one, in terms or power. This meaning that say the Xbox One has a 1.8Ghz per Core on its six-core processor, if you were to take 1.8 and times it by 6, then times that by 3, that it the total power of the Xbox Ones CPU. Also the actual space avalible to devs on the 50GB Blu Ray disk is now multiplied by 3 bringing it to a grand total of 150GB of total space that a dev can use to store there game data. The current Xbox 360 only has 8GB of Disk storage and for certain games like 4GB of Cloud which is nothing compared to Xbox One. In other terms, the Xbox One would allow a dev to create an entire open works game of the planet, including all continents, mountains and more and then they would still have data left over for other game aspects.


Thanks for clearing this up! If they have a game like the whole world, free roam, kinda like GTA but more to do, that would be awesome! I think The Crew is the whole world, or USA at least.

slapshot101Posted:

If they are at only 15,000 servers and the One is powered by 300,000 they have a lot of work to do to get to that number.

TopNotchKiNGPosted:

For all the noobs, this basically means that your Xbox One Console is actually 3 Consoles in one, in terms or power. This meaning that say the Xbox One has a 1.8Ghz per Core on its six-core processor, if you were to take 1.8 and times it by 6, then times that by 3, that it the total power of the Xbox Ones CPU. Also the actual space avalible to devs on the 50GB Blu Ray disk is now multiplied by 3 bringing it to a grand total of 150GB of total space that a dev can use to store there game data. The current Xbox 360 only has 8GB of Disk storage and for certain games like 4GB of Cloud which is nothing compared to Xbox One. In other terms, the Xbox One would allow a dev to create an entire open works game of the planet, including all continents, mountains and more and then they would still have data left over for other game aspects.

MobOfTheDeadPosted:

Diamond_Supply Oh wow! I literally live 45 minutes away from Des Moines! :O


We live in the same state! :D

LitecoinPosted:

This is a great idea, I saw this posted on your facebook, I live one state over, hope this has some great improvements.

YurPosted:

Gossip I guess this is good. Kind of a waste of money though.


Not really, read the whole article

triksta2k11Posted:

"Microsoft's cloud will provide developers with the CPU and storage equivalent of an additional three Xbox One consoles." Of an additional 3 Xbox consoles? So does that mean that Xbone will be now have the same power as 4 consoles in one? MEANING better graphics than PS4?


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