Who would have ever thought ocean containers would be used to house servers. This is an interesting video and if they need more room, send in the 
trucks with the containers. Microsoft is building a few more of these around the world and I seem to remember a large center in China somewhere along the line. When we talk about the “cloud” well this one of the big ones. I spent many years in logistics and perhaps that is why the container mode is still a funny sort of idea as I saw just about everything else in ocean containers, but high tech years ago would have been the last thing I would have thought of, active high tech.
This could be the eventual storage facility of your medical records some day. The article stated there were many Bing posters all over the inside, so perhaps that’s another director of what is happening inside. BD
CHICAGO--On the outside, Microsoft's massive new data center resembles the other buildings in the industrial area.
Even the inside of the building doesn't look like that much. The ground floor looks like a large indoor parking lot filled with a few parked trailers.
It's what's inside those trailers, though, that is the key to Microsoft's cloud-computing efforts. Each of the shipping containers in the Chicago data center houses anywhere from 1,800 to 2,500 servers, each of which can be serving up e-mail, managing instant messages, or running applications for Microsoft's soon-to-be-launched cloud-based operating system--Windows Azure.
Inside one of the world's largest data centers | Beyond Binary - CNET News
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