After the postponement of the development of a data center, and the loss of a senior management group of its data centers, Microsoft said it will soon be opening a new facility, in Dublin, Ireland and Chicago.

Data Center will support Microsoft's services, such as a new search service, ice and Azure, the cloud computing platform. Dublin facilities, open days, will be Microsoft's largest outside the United States involving 303,000 square feet and the use of external air cooling facilities to conserve energy.

Chicago facilities, which are scheduled for July 20, there will be more than doubled, including 700,000 square feet. Two-thirds of the central server will be able to accommodate containers. In some data centers, Microsoft has begun to use standard containers loaded servers 1800-2500, because it can save electricity just cooling containers, rather than the entire facility.

After opening, Microsoft announced earlier this year, it will Iowa data center to the plan is to be shelved. It also delayed the opening of facilities in Chicago and Dublin.

At that time, the company's optimistic description of the delay was due to the success of Iowa's efforts to improve the efficiency of data center operations elsewhere.

But in fact, the construction may be delayed; Microsoft found that the growth of hosting services may have been lower than expected. Microsoft's online services group revenue in the first quarter ended March 31 on the U.S. 721 million U.S. dollars from 843 million U.S. dollars in the same period last year.

Microsoft is not only the control back to its data center expansion plan in a recession. Google late last year decided to postpone the construction of facilities, it plans to Oklahoma State.

Microsoft also has several well-known leaders of the Group in its data center. In April this year, Michael Hand, the general manager of data center services, take the left side of the wholesale data center employment figures provided by the real estate trust. The end of last year, James Hamilton, a respected data center engineers, leaving Microsoft to join the Amazon Web Services.