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Fri 09 Sep 2009Microsoft opens €341m data centre in Dublin
MICROSOFT formally opened its $500 million (€341 million) Dublin “mega-data centre” yesterday, the first such facility outside the US, as the world’s largest software maker fights for a bigger slice of the online market.
The new 28,100 sq m facility will enable Microsoft to offer cloud computing services, where the software runs in the data centre rather than on customers’ computers, to European customers.
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