Summary: Media reports indicate Microsoft paid an undisclosed amount for a 202k sqft data centre on a 34 acre plot in San Antonio, Texas, from Chevron. Microsoft completed its first data centre in the area, a 427k sqft facility, in 2005 and is also understood to have a presence in two San Antonio-based CyrusOne data centres. Late last year, Microsoft acquired a 158 acre site in the Texas Research Park on which it plans to build an eight building data centre complex. Microsoft isn’t widely known for taking over existing data centres, and it may be that the latest acquisition will enable it to bring capacity more quickly to market than it can build. Texas was one of two new Azure government cloud regions Microsoft opened in the US in July.
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