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Data Center Podcast: Stack Infrastructure’s Tim Hughes on the business of hyperscale computing facilities. Tim Hughes got his start in the data center industry when his friend offered him a contract position at Facebook’s first data center. The social network was leasing space at a DuPont Fabros Technology (now part of Digital Realty) facility in Ashburn, Virginia. The job wasn’t glorious. It entailed pulling pallets, sweeping floors, racking and stacking. “Everybody that has work...

Provided It isn’t often that state and local government in Illinois get singled out for a pro-business mindset, but that’s the message coming from people connected to a thriving submarket in industrial real estate — data centers. As development projects go, data centers aren’t the flashiest things. Some have occupied space in attractive old buildings, the best example being the old R.R. Donnelley plant at 350 E. Cermak Road, reputedly among the largest such facilities in the world. The ...

Microsoft Acquires $28M Site Near Atlanta For Azure Data Center Microsoft has paid $28.8M for a chunk of land in south Fulton County, Georgia, to house a new 250K SF data center. The site is part of Shugart Farms, a multiphase industrial park development in Palmetto. Microsofts Cloud Infrastructure Sourcing and Acquisitions unit carried out the property deal, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The paper also reported that Microsoft is considerin...