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Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia
miller60 writes "Microsoft has announced plans to build a data center in Siberia. The facility near the city of Irkutsk will be able to hold 10,000 servers. Officials in Microsoft's Russian business unit said the region had a stable power supply, and will be able to support a 50 megawatt utility feed. The average winter temperature is below zero in Irkutsk (which is perhaps best known to gamers as a territory in Risk). Microsoft recently announced huge data center projects in Chicago and Dublin, Ireland, and is clearly ramping up its worldwide infrastructure platform as it competes with Google." No doubt this will save a fortune on cooling costs- they can just crack a window.
you piss off putin or start making money. Putin is a lot like MS; if he thinks that you are making a lot more money, then he will come after you. It is exactly what they did to a number of oil men and oil projects. I suspect that if USA pisses off Putin's ppl, we may see companies like MS picked off.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.