Hahaha: ZDNet has this story about Microsoft’s new $500m data center in Ireland

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will spend $500 million on building a new European data-processing center in Ireland.

Microsoft said in a statement that the planned Dublin center will house tens of thousands of servers providing information and Web-based applications to Internet users.

Construction will begin later this month, with the center expected to be completed by 2009.”

And:

Industry sources said the highly automated facility would create about 20 jobs. Microsoft employs 1,200 staff in Ireland at another site in Dublin.”

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