Just how much would cost the maintenance of 300k servers ?

[thranx]

RenCutypoison said:

thranx said:
I dont think anyone can accurately calculate it without knowing more variables. Especially the location of the servers as that is what will determine wage and material costs.

"So how does Microsoft scale from 15,000 to 300,000 servers? More data centers. This year we’ve recently profiled major expansions at three of Microsoft’s data center hubs inVirginia, Ireland and Washington state. Check out these stories for a closer look at the “cloud end” of Microsoft’s online experience."

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/05/24/microsoft-will-back-xbox-one-300000-servers/

We are not talking about hong kong or north pole, that's for sure

those are ones that have recently been renovated but there are others worldwide

Hong Kong is in fact included

http://matthew.sorvaag.net/2011/06/windows-azure-data-centre-locations/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/08/09/20-nodes-available-globally-for-the-windows-azure-cdn.aspx

US/EMEA

US

• Ashburn, VA
• Bay Area, CA
• Chicago, IL
• San Antonio, TX
• Los Angeles, CA
• Miami, FL
• Newark, NJ
• Seattle, WA

EMEA

• Amsterdam, NL
• Doha, QT  NEW
• Dublin, IE
• London, GB
• Moscow, RU
• Paris, FR
• Stockholm, SE
• Vienna, AT
• Zurich, CH

Asia-Pacific/Rest of World

• Hong Kong, HK
• São Paulo, BR
• Seoul, KR
• Singapore, SG
• Sydney, AU
• Taipei, TW
• Tokyo, JP