Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire

Microsoft has signaled significant expansion of its datacenter footprint in the Asia Pacific region. A job ad posted over the weekend seeks a Datacenter Land Acquisition Manager to work within a team responsible for "the delivery and pre-positioning of real estate to build Microsoft's cloud infrastructure." The ad promises …

[ZaphodHarkonnen]

Hey, don't forget Aotearoa/New Zealand! :P

[hoofie2002]

Maybe they will finally pull their finger out and put something in Perth. Buckets of mining IT and workloads but everything is still across the Nullaboor as far as Microsoft is concerned.

[Bebu]

Morbid imagination.

"strong knowledge of alternative real estate transaction approaches."

For no particular reason other than little love for MS in general, this seemed a little sinister. An image of a horses head (sans horse) in a bed came to mind.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Morbid imagination.

As long as they remember this it will be fine…. though other than buying or leasing a building I can’t imaging what other ‘approaches’ there are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act