Microsoft Denies Humidity Changed Its Cloud Design

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1. Microsoft has gone modular in an Iowa centre, and denies reports that humidity caused the change Microsoft has opted for a more modular design for the second phase of its data centre in West Des Moines (Iowa) in the United States, and denies recent media reports that suggest the change was becuase of humidity. The second phase of the data centre has a different design to the first phase. The Des Moines Register quoted local officials as saying this is because of the steamy summers in the US state. Steamy Summers? “I think they’re finding out that the individual units are not working so well in the Iowa humidity,” West Des Moines city planner Lynne Twedt was quoted as saying in the Des Moines Register. “They’re going to a different plan of attack with this one,” (i.e. phase two). (Read Full Article)

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