Microsoft is shipping a data centre in a 40-foot container. What's inside, and what's it for? Microsoft's Azure Modular data center brings computing on the edge. Microsoft's container-based Azure MDC (Modular Data Center) is designed to be easily deployed wherever power and connectivity are available. Image: Microsoft If there's one thing you can rely on, in today's world, it's change. And change often happens fast, leaving you chasing wave after wave of information. Sometimes that change is good: a sudden surge in business demand, or a new scientific discovery. Sometimes it's bad: a natural disaster, or a global pandemic. But whatever the nature of the change, we'll need as much compute capacity as we can get in an increasingly information-driven world.