{"id":9725,"date":"2009-06-30T08:33:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2009-06-30T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-ireland-to-open-the-new-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9725","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Ireland To Open The New Data Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MS Ireland is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/29\/microsoft-to-open-two-massive-data-centers\/\">opening<\/a> the new data centre in Dublin tomorrow (July 1st 2009).\u00a0 It\u2019s down the Nangor Road, near the Air Corps base, and across from the Grange Castle golf course.\u00a0 Why there?\u00a0 That\u2019s the most connected road in Ireland, thanks mainly to the presence of DataElectronics (DEG).\u00a0 DEG is an Irish colo hosting facility and just so happens to be the one we use at work.<\/p>\n<p>This data centre will host MS internal service but also the hosted services.\u00a0 Being American, it\u2019s subject to the Patriot Act so companies worried about the European\/Irish data protection directive might not be able to consider those services.\u00a0 Otherwise, there\u2019s some seriously cool offerings for small, medium and large businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/29\/microsoft-to-open-two-massive-data-centers\/\">Grangecastle is<\/a> <em>\u201cis the first \u201cmega-data center\u201d Microsoft has built outside the U.S. The 303,000 square foot first phase of the building will be supported by 5.4 megawatts of electricity and have a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.25, the company said. The $500 million project will eventually include about 550,000 square feet of space\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 This data centre will run \u201chot\u201d, i.e. not at the usual 19C or 21C but at 30C.\u00a0 This saves a fortune on air conditioning power consumption and is fully supported by HP, MS\u2019s (and mine) preferred supplier of servers and storage.<\/p>\n<p>A Chicago data centre will also be opening.\u00a0 This is the first of MS\u2019s next generation data centres based on a fault tolerant, scalable, economic and power efficient <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/microsoft-embraces-data-center-containers\/\">container model<\/a>.\u00a0 Each module is a pre-build container that is dropped into place and connected to a permanent corridor.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT#1:<\/p>\n<p>PS Microsoft, I&#8217;ll be just around the corner if you feel like giving me a tour tomorrow \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Ireland is opening the new data centre in Dublin tomorrow (July 1st 2009).\u00a0 It\u2019s down the Nangor Road, near the Air Corps base, and across from the Grange Castle golf course.\u00a0 Why there?\u00a0 That\u2019s the most connected road in Ireland, thanks mainly to the presence of DataElectronics (DEG).\u00a0 DEG is an Irish colo hosting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Ireland To Open The New Data Centre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}