Microsoft building first data centres with cross-laminated timber

Architecture studio Gensler has designed a pair of data centres with a hybrid CLT structure in northern Virgina, USA, for technology brand Microsoft.
While typically built from concrete and steel, Microsoft has adopted a hybrid cross-laminated timber (CLT), steel and concrete construction model for the two centres – the company's first to be built using wood.
Designed by Gensler and structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti, the two-storey centres are currently under construction in Virgina.