New Microsoft datacenters on tap for Chicago, Dub

As Microsoft forges ahead with its myriad cloud-computing assignments, it truly is expanding its datacenter footprint just as quickly.Many Chicago-area media are reporting that Microsoft will probably be the tenant of a new 440,0000-plus square-foot datacenter in Northlake, Ill. Estimates place the price of the new facility at additional than $500 million.Microsoft also has built and/or is building datacenter amenities in San Antonio, Dublin, Santa Clara and Quincy, Wash. (LiveSide.Net managed to obtain some great shots not too long ago of the Quincy compound — from outside the fence.)Microsoft;s growing datacenter spending has been at the heart with the company;s continued hefty Online Systems Business infrastructure expenses.(Image of Quincy, Wash., Microsoft datacenter amenities courtesy of Liveside.Net.)