The regularly chilly but increasingly industrialized city of Irkutsk will have Microsoft as a datacenter resident. Microsoft seems to have an obsession with dropping datacenters into cities with nice cold winters. Dublin isn't exactly known for its balmy January weather, and Chicago will never replace Boca Raton as a winter destination for the cold-averse.
Rich Miller at Kommersant article. With 10,000 servers, Siberia's Microsoft outpost would have a tenth of what Dublin will support. But Microsoft's datacenter should be the biggest one in Russia when completed, said less than four people per square kilometer. Perhaps Microsoft anticipates a lot of usage from Siberian visitors from the north, and Mongolians from the south. Or as one commenter on follow me on TwitterMicrosoft Plans Datacenter For Siberia
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