Microsoft has worked with three companies over the last two years on how to recover valuable elements from old equipment. Now, the software giant plans to scale up the practice domestically. Women ...

John Traynor, legislative director at the Washington State Labor Council, said he spent months working as an electrician at Microsoft’s data center campus in Quincy. “This is exactly the kind ...

Then in 2006, Microsoft bought about 75 acres of fields in Quincy ... In 2006, Washington State enacted its first sales tax break for data centers to encourage construction.

Zoom in: Seattle-area companies such as Amazon and Microsoft are among those fueling the data center industry's growth. State of play: Washington lawmakers passed a tax break in 2010 encouraging ...

Quincy, Washington – Crushed rock and sand banged around in the swirling drum of a concrete mixer truck here on a construction contractor’s lot adjacent to a Microsoft datacenter. The scene on this ...