Rather than using the traditional materials of steel and concrete for the entire build, Microsoft is using cross-laminated timber (CLT) for a new data center in Northern Virginia. The experiment is part of the company’s drive to become carbon negative by 2030 and offset all its emissions since its founding (in 1975) by 2050.
What happens when someone hits it with a truck, plane or explosive?
Concrete and steel can take a beating. Maybe they should just look at low emitting concrete
It blows up, but the redundancy kicks in and the services start running from a different data center.
They’re not supposed to be fail proof.
But they should be secure from attack. We are talking about a data center housing lots of important data.
I’m sure MS has figured that part out but I wonder how.