The company is said to have bought a 40,000 square meter property on the outskirts of Vienna.
The first Microsoft data center in Austria could be built in Schwechat (Bruck ad Leitha district). According to research by the business magazine “Profit”, Microsoft Data Center (Austria) GmbH bought around 40,000 square meters of building land near the central cemetery just outside Vienna.
While the group was keeping a low profile, Schwechat's mayor Karin Baier (SPÖ) confirmed the company's interest in the property to ORF Lower Austria. However, the area in question is privately owned and does not belong to the municipality.
The US technology group announced in October 2020 that it would invest around one billion euros in its first cloud data center in Germany over the next two to four years. Austria will thus become one of a total of 64 such data center regions in the future.
