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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FoolishPosted:
Thats a lot of money for a data center. Hopefully it will make the XB1 experience better
WeaksaucePosted:
well its nice to know where all of our money is going in to. now to just find where the other billions are going.
EulerPosted:
unversWip I guess this is good. Kinda a waste of money though
How is it a waste of money if they are gonna invest it lol
It's not a waste of money at all? They clearly needed it, so what's the problem?
EulerPosted:
BDBimgurlel lol, 670m worth of data of the kinect spying on us (joke)
It may be, it always has to be on...
I will just cover the Kinect if not using it, but they can still here everything -.- *fapfapfap*
I think they changed that, that it doesn't always have to be on anymore
EulerPosted:
NinjaWizardBDB $670m WOW, but why do they need another data centre? :s
They make billions, this is just pocket change.
They must have some pretty huge pockets...
PlusnetPosted:
BDB $670m WOW, but why do they need another data centre? :s
They make billions, this is just pocket change.
MentalistPosted:
imgurwok $670 million! damnnnnnnn, so rich. All they do is buy rights to everything.
And the sad part is that is nothing to them...
How is it nothing? If they invest $670m its probably something :D They need to save the Kinect videos somewhere! :D
MentalistPosted:
imgurlel lol, 670m worth of data of the kinect spying on us (joke)
It may be, it always has to be on...
I will just cover the Kinect if not using it, but they can still here everything -.- *fapfapfap*
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