Thursday, April 26, 2012

Google bringing extra bytes to Hawkeye State with $300 million data center

Google bringing extra bytes to Hawkeye State with $300 million data center

You're a multinational search company that has just rolled out a new cloud storage offering. You've also just given your millions and millions of email users an extra 2.5GB of storage, free of charge. What do you do next. Build another data center. The big G has announced its intentions to raise a $300 million information barn in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Construction on a 1,000 acre plot will begin immediately and, for its efforts, the Search Sultan will be gifted with a handful of tax incentives totaling over $9 million.

Engadget, Google bringing extra bytes to Hawkeye State with $300 million data center

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