http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/04/2012-04-24google-data-center.jpg You’re a multinational search company that has just rolled out a new cloud storage offering. You’ve also just given your 350 email users and 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. Google is no stranger to the mean streets (we’re not sure if they’re actually* mean*) of Council Bluffs, though, as the company already operates a $600 million data facility within that city’s limits. For those of you keeping track at home, that’s a $900 million stimulus for the Buckeye State.
Google bringing extra bytes to Buckeye State with $300 million data center originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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