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44. Microsoft invests $700 million in a new data center for Cloud computing on Xbox One in Iowa.

When you have the money, you can be sure that there will be no limit to what you can do with it. Microsoft invested $700 million in a new data center for Cloud computing on Xbox One in Iowa. Microsoft made this investment because of the ever growing demand for its cloud services and the Xbox Live. The data center will boast 300,000 servers by the time its next-gen console launches.