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Google to spend over 1/2 a billion for Datacenter in North Carolina

RALEIGH, N.C. - Search engine giant Google Inc. plans to spend $600 million to build a data center in North Carolina, state officials and the company said Friday.

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Nice to have cash laying around for asset allocations like this.

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Don't forget MSN

Wasn't Microsoft also building a $550 million data center in Texas? I like seeing both of them pony up some investment for the future.

Edit: Found the Microsoft portion here

By Cygnus at Jan 20 2007 - 20:43

Conspiracy Theorists...

Rejoice! Cringely has a good write-up on what he thinks Google is doing with all the resources they're buying up.

By DigitalGhost at Jan 20 2007 - 23:27

Hire me!

I live in Charlotte

By Wavy Davy at Jan 24 2007 - 14:37

By the way......

It is beautiful around here and having lived but a stones throw from Mountain View in Calif for 10 years I must say that anyone who is into a peaceful life will love it here.

David

By Wavy Davy at Jan 24 2007 - 14:39

I thought cringely's article

I thought cringely's article was bizarre, his whole argument is based on this paragraph.

...I'll go further and guess that Google is planning to build similar data centers in many states and that the two centers they are apparently preparing to build here in South Carolina are probably intended mainly to SERVE South Carolina. That's perhaps 100,000 servers for four million potential users or 40 users per server. What computing service could possibly require such resources?

So google is going to start this whole experiment he is predicting in south carolina? Not really the normal the way they work. Why would the idea of it just being an east coast datacenter be so odd?

By SteveMarks at Jan 25 2007 - 09:35