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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neboPosted:
Gossip I guess this is good. Kind of a waste of money though.
How is that a waste of money? Maybe if you read the article you would read what it's doing.
DLTPosted:
Well I wouldn't want to be on the team that has to install all of them servers. Just under 100 is time consuming enough.
LuckyOtterPosted:
Awk u dont see the point of investing so much money when there servers are already good, ive never seen them go down they could of did so many different things to change the xbox one.
You don't understand how these new servers will work do you? Now games like Titanfall will be able to increase in size without it all going to a disk or your hard drive. Plus dedicated server for Multiplayer games. Games like CoD can start to catch up to the times and be a little more like BF. Doubt this Ghost one will be able to since it's release on current gen to but maybe the next. Also next Halo will for sure be using them.
JagermeisterPosted:
Awk u dont see the point of investing so much money when there servers are already good, ive never seen them go down they could of did so many different things to change the xbox one.
You sir are dumb as hell. They have crap loads of money. This is nothing to them. This is actually a good thing. Xbox Original = 500 servers Xbox 360 = 15,000 servers Xbox One = 300,000 servers. I'd slap the Chris Brown out of you.
AwkPosted:
u dont see the point of investing so much money when there servers are already good, ive never seen them go down they could of did so many different things to change the xbox one.
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