Microsoft's Vaasa data center is a planned facility on Finland's west coast, located within the GigaVaasa industrial zone and spanning the municipal border between Vaasa and Mustasaari, with roughly two-thirds of the land in Vaasa. Microsoft acquired the site in mid-2026 under a preliminary agreement, selecting it for its established industrial setting and existing infrastructure. Pre-construction groundworks began in July 2026 under main contractor Destia, covering site clearance, access roads, soil strengthening, rock haulage and earthworks, with noisier phases awaiting separate authority permits. Microsoft submitted building permit applications in August 2026 and has said it will confirm a construction timeline once those proceed. The project sits well outside Finland's established data center cluster around Helsinki.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | FCDC: Vaasa Campus |
Finnish data center operator FCDC Corp Oy is developing a new campus in the Laajametsä business area of west-central Finland.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | FCDC: Vaasa 2 |
This facility is part of FCDC's Vaasa Campus in Finland.
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Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.
An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.
With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.
An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.
Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.
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