What to expect from Microsoft’s shiny new datacentre

What to expect from Microsoft’s shiny new datacentre
Microsoft's new NZ-based datacentre. (Image: Supplied)
Peter Griffin
After four years of planning and construction, Microsoft’s Auckland-based hyperscale datacentre is now live and onboarding customers.Thursday marks the official launch of the Azure datacentre region, which relies on a large datacentre at Westgate in Auckland, which Microsoft’s accounts show it has spent over $1 billion on in the last year. Two other datacentres in Auckland will offer redundancy and backup capability. Still, Microsoft has been coy about whether it owns them outright or is leasing capacity from other datacentre o...

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