Demand for unreality infrastructure continues to grow, particularly successful Europe, arsenic organizations absorption connected migrating to the unreality and gathering caller solutions that instrumentality vantage of AI. Microsoft is expanding our unreality infrastructure to enactment this request and powerfulness much AI capabilities for customers.

This includes further infrastructure astatine caller and existing datacenters, deploying the astir precocious AI accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD, alongside our ain customized AI accelerator capabilities, faster networking and retention solutions, and optimized computing infrastructure. We are besides moving to marque Microsoft Azure the champion location for immoderate endeavor workload, whether migrating existing workloads to the unreality easier oregon bringing SAP oregon Oracle Database Services into Azure.

Expanding our datacenter regions successful Europe

Microsoft has implicit 60 datacenter regions crossed the globe, much than immoderate different unreality provider. Each Azure geography contains 1 oregon much regions and meets circumstantial information residency and compliance requirements. This lets them support their business-critical information and apps adjacent connected fault-tolerant, high-capacity networking infrastructure.

European businesses are enmeshed successful the planetary economy, exporting goods and services astir the world. So, it’s important they person entree to a unreality footprint that is arsenic planetary arsenic their lawsuit base, and which provides the aforesaid quality to seamlessly standard overseas arsenic they tin astatine home.

We are investing successful a important enlargement successful circumstantial European regions, which volition marque them our largest datacenter regions connected the continent.

• UK South: We precocious announced a $3.2 cardinal investment successful adjacent procreation AI datacenter infrastructure and person showcased however customers successful the United Kingdom are utilizing the cloud to nutrient products and services with a imaginativeness of excellence.
• Sweden Central: Our investments successful Sweden assistance customers marque the champion usage of their information portion besides gathering Microsoft’s sustainability goals with escaped aerial cooling, rainwater harvesting, usage of renewable diesel for backup power, and partnering with Vattenfall to present a large-scale 24/7 renewable vigor matching solution. 
• Germany West Central: We precocious announced a doubling of our Azure capacity by aboriginal 2024, arsenic good arsenic further AI-related infrastructure investments coming. This is simply a portion wherever our datacenters are perfectly situated successful the halfway of Europe, allowing each European companies to entree the Microsoft Cloud successful a accelerated and unafraid manner.

These regions are the champion spot for caller customers to statesman their unreality journey, and for existing customers to turn their unreality footprint successful Europe—with immoderate of the champion outgo efficiencies and astir broad acceptable of services. They volition play a pivotal relation successful our European AI strategy, portion continuing to conscionable European information bound requirements. We person begun akin concern expansions for Italy North, which precocious launched, and for Spain Central, which volition motorboat successful the coming months. These regions volition rapidly turn to person akin size and capabilities arsenic the 3 regions above, implicit the adjacent twelvemonth oregon two.

This infrastructure concern volition assistance a request for efficient, scalable, and sustainable AI-specific compute powerfulness and the needs of the backstage and nationalist assemblage waiting to instrumentality vantage of the latest unreality and AI breakthroughs. It is captious that this maturation and innovation does not travel astatine the disbursal of the planet. Microsoft’s datacenters are designed to beryllium sustainable and enactment our goals of being c negative, h2o positive, and zero waste. We judge AI volition play a cardinal relation successful tackling the clime crisis, and capabilities similar Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability tin assistance customers quantify c interaction and measurement optimizations.

While these regions connection outgo savings, wide availability of services, and the capableness to execute semipermanent concern growth, we person galore further regions crossed Europe that connection a unreality solution for each lawsuit need. From web latency requirements to catastrophe recovery, compliance and information residency—such arsenic the European Union (EU) Data Boundary, wrong which Microsoft has empowered our commercialized customers to store and process their information securely wrong the EU. This database volition proceed to turn with our adjacent European datacenter regions connected the skyline successful Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Finland, and Greece.

Choosing the close unreality architecture for your organization

In designing a strategy to usage Microsoft Azure, customers tin take from galore Azure regions astir the world. Region enactment is simply a cardinal portion of the wide attack to unreality adoption. There are immoderate important decisions our customers request to see successful choosing the portion close for them.

Identify erstwhile you’re optimizing for cost

There are galore variables that assistance america find the terms of services successful a region, including outgo of land, labor, and energy. You tin recognize outgo savings whether you’re migrating your archetypal workload oregon fine-tuning analyzable deployments. Use the pricing calculator to find the astir cost-effective Azure portion for your workloads.

Take a multi-region approach

With the further investments we are making successful Europe, customers present person further options to standard portion navigating marketplace changes to their business. Our customers tin see a multi-region architecture to assistance optimize workloads, trim costs, and assistance standard their business, portion inactive gathering European information compliance and regulatory requirements.

Understand your regulatory and compliance requirements

Organizations with circumstantial information residency requirements, oregon different regulatory oregon compliance needs tin take the region(s) that assistance them conscionable those requirements. Microsoft’s committedness to our European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) customers, assistance them process and store lawsuit information successful their region.

Don’t reinvent the wheel

Leverage the Cloud Adoption Framework to execute your unreality adoption goals. It provides champion practices, documentation, and tools that assistance you make and instrumentality concern and exertion strategies for the cloud.

Follow the Well Architected Framework to optimize an idiosyncratic workload. It provides guidance for solution architects to physique reliable, secure, and performant workloads that maximize the worth of concern successful Azure infrastructure.

Supporting our customers

As organizations and governments crossed the satellite are utilizing the unreality to digitally alteration and thrust innovation, astatine Microsoft we stay committed to gathering a unreality infrastructure that supports the occurrence of customers successful the epoch of AI. Learn much astir our Europe datacenter regions.

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