Microsoft has drawn up plans for investing $348 million in expanding its data center footprint. The investment will go into Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Some of the key aspects of this expansion will be the inclusion of all the latest innovations in green IT, expansion of its Azure cloud computing platform, using modular data center designs and better data center energy efficiency too. As far as the local economy is concerned this investment means more jobs. The data center expansion project is coming up because the company has to keep up with growing demands from its customers.
The project will also be a great showcase for the company's policy of bringing together state of the art designs as far as reducing carbon footprint is concerned with increases in server utilization and cloud computing capabilities. Using a modular principle also gives the company the advantage of lowering costs and shortening deployment times.