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It’s serendipitous for the Microsoft Thermal Energy Center team that young Stuart Yanow decided to take his older sister’s advice and major in mechanical engineering rather than health sciences.

Tech firm cites scope changes due to new developments in related technologies at data center site purchased from Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn after it scaled back a separate manufacturing plant at the site. 

The company identified three sites east of Columbus for data center campuses it says it may continue to build out in the future.

The Microsoft Thermal Energy Center, a groundbreaking geothermal heating and cooling system that serves the buildings of the tech giant’s 72-acre East Campus Modernization outside Seattle, was truly two exotic jobs wrapped into one.

Microsoft’s Thermal Energy Center provides more than power for the tech giant’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. It’s a source of pride for the engineering, design and construction team behind the project.

An African-American journeyman laborer says he encountered racism from other workers on tech company modernization project at its large Redmond, Wash., campus. 

Software provider told Year in Infrastructure conference attendees Oct. 20 that strategic link will better integrate the tech giant’s Azure cloud system into its existing software to ease data logjam.

Putting more sensors on a jobsite can tell you a lot about temperature, humidity, noise and vibration, but doing something useful with that data can be a daunting task.

At last month’s Global Climate Action Summit, Microsoft announced it is the first large corporate user of a new tool to track carbon emissions associated with raw building materials.