Datacenters

Some datacenters have servers grouped inside containers - each containing 1800-2500 servers.

The locations of the data centers are:

North America North-central US - Chicago, IL South-central US - San Antonio, TX West US - California East US - Virginia Asia East Asia - Hong Kong, China South East Asia - Singapore Europe West Europe - Amsterdam, Netherlands North Europe - Dublin, Ireland

The CDN nodes are located in 24 countries.

Deployment in Ireland

As of July 2010, Microsoft had completed 6,000 installations of Azure in Ireland. Executives at Microsoft hoped that this figure would rise to 100,000 installations by 2011.

Construction of the $500 million facility required 1 million man-hours of work with a peak workforce of around 2,100 workers. The facility, which began operating on July 1, 2009, currently covers 303,000 square feet (2.815 hectares), with 5.4 megawatts of critical power available. Over time, the data center can expand to a total of 22.2 mega watts of critical power to support future growth.