Microsoft Drops $1.1B for Iowa Data Center
 

Microsoft will be investing over one Billion dollars over the next the next 5 years for a 154 acre tract of land in Iowa to build a new mega data center for Microsoft's Azure Cloud. The company has been gradually improving the feature set and lowering prices of its Azure public cloud service. Such moves could attract more customers.

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