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Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.

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It's been known for some time that Iowa was full of corn, pigs, soybeans, etc, but now it's starting to become known for data centers. More interestingly, cloud computing data centers. With cheap electricity (of which 8% of that is wind generated) and lots of land, both Google and Microsoft are building large data centers in the state. Google is buliding out their large DC in Council Bluffs, and Microsoft is putting their's somewhere in the Des Moines area, although we don't know where yet, but my guess will be somewhere south or west. My assumption here will be that MSFT will buy enough land so that they can build their own wind farm, putting their new datacenter on their own power grid. Google (my assumption here again) is doing the same thing. They purchased additional acres south of Council Bluffs, and my guess is to build a wind farm to power their server farm.

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The Legislature passed measures creating tax incentives aimed at luring the computer giant to Iowa, to build new power generating facilities and improve the state's communications network. Those efforts paid off with Microsoft's decision, said Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs.

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Microsoft is creating 75 full-time jobs paying an average annual salary of up to $70,000 at that center.

To receive the Iowa tax breaks signed Feb. 28 by Culver, Microsoft must invest at least $200 million in the state.

Last year the state approved a measure that helped persuade Google to build a $600 million data center near Council Bluffs. That package exempted electricity purchases and capital investments from the state's sales tax.

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Microsoft Corp. has selected West Des Moines as the site of its new $500 million data center.

The center will be built on a 42-acre parcel at the intersection of Booneville Road and Xavier Place and will house large-scale World Wide Web services for Microsoft's online services business. It will employ 50 to 75 people, with an average salary $70,000.

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"Gov. Chet Culver welcomed Microsoft to Iowa today, with the announcement that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will build a $500 million data center in West Des Moines."

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"The entire first floor of Chicago is going to be containers," Microsoft director of data center services Michael Manos said this morning in his keynote at Data Center World in Las Vegas. "This represents our first container data center. The containers are going to be dropped off and plugged into network cabling and power." The second floor of the immense facility will be a traditional raised-floor data center, Manos said.

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This “next-gen” facility will be different than the traditional data center, supposedly using the “container” model they have been working on. Basically a container is a semi-trailer (or shipping container that you see on barges and trains). Within this container are 1,000 - 2,000 servers. These containers are, literally, trailers that can be hauled in via trucks to scale the system. Microsoft has built a similar data center in Chicago that has two floors. Currently, the entire first floor is made up of 150-200 of these containers.

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Microsoft is expected to announced tomorrow that it will bring its new data center to West Des Moines, sources familiar with the project say. The size of the project and employment are unavailable.

Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in July that it would bring a data center to the Des Moines area. The West Des Moines project is expected to be similar in size to a data center in San Antonio, Texas.

Microsoft said last year it’s building a $550 million data farm that will employ about 75 high-tech workers. The workers will earn an average of $70,000 annually.

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The state agreed to provide sales and use tax exemptions on purchases of computers, equipment and electricity necessary for use in a Web portal business with an investment of at least $200 million in Iowa.

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DES MOINES, Iowa - Microsoft Corp. confirmed plans Tuesday to build a data center in the Des Moines area, a move that comes about four months after the state approved a package of tax breaks designed to lure the company.

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"We just announced we're going to start to break ground in Iowa." With that comment at the close of a video interview with Om Malik, Microsoft's Debra Chrapaty confirmed the company's intention to build a major data center in Iowa, which is already home t

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THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two

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THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two

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