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Aug 31 2010 7:31am EDT

Microsoft Wades Back Into Data Centers

TechFlash reports: Delighted, excited, thankful, pleased, proud.

Those were the words of officials from Mecklenburg County, Va., falling all over themselves on Friday to welcome the Redmond company's decision to spend up to $499 million to build a massive data center in their community. Gov. Bob McDonnell called it "the largest investment project in the history of Southern Virginia."

But the news is also interesting as further confirmation that Microsoft is getting back in the game of constructing data centers again, after slowing things down a bit during the recession.

Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge reports that, in addition to the Virgina project, the company recently began building a second data center in Quincy, and took plans for an Iowa data center back off the shelf.

For more on Microsoft investments, go to TechFlash.

Todd Bishop is managing editor of TechFlash.

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