Last week Amazon Web Services announced plans to add new cloud data centers in Paris: Now it’s Microsoft’s turn.
On Monday, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Microsoft will add a new Azure data center farm in Paris. Azure already runs out of data center farms in Germany, the U.K., and Ireland. He mentioned the news briefly during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Ireland Tech Gathering in Dublin.
Microsoft is building cloud capacity globally, Nadella said, and has doubled its Azure capacity in Europe in the past year. In addition, he again noted that Microsoft must “address legitimate data sovereignty and other compliance needs of European countries.”
