These latest projects bring Microsoft’s total estimated investment in data centers in both counties to over $1.2 billion spent across eight properties since 2015, according to state filings.
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Now Microsoft has recently registered another data center under construction farther west, where the Bexar and Medina county lines meet, estimating the construction cost at $230 million. Though it takes several hundred workers to build a data center from the ground up, thus providing construction jobs for a period of time, only about 50 employees are posted in a typical data center.
In addition, with the investment required to build and maintain a data center, she said, there is less chance that a facility will shut down or relocate in the future. Because water is the most common method for cooling data centers, it also makes them heavy water users. Researchers at Virginia Tech found that, in just one day, the average data center could use 300,000 gallons of water, or about the same consumption as 100,000 homes.to replenish more water than it uses in its data centers by 2030.
“While we are not actively positioning San Antonio for data center operations, we are focused on ensuring that our San Antonio region has the available, large-scale, shovel-ready sites to accommodate users within our target sectors.”
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