by LDeX Group | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, Press
In eight days, the American internet giant has announced the construction of nine facilities with many more potentially on the cards.
Google has announced the construction of three data centres in Osaka, Japan, brining the total number of facilities announced since February 1, 2018, to nine.
The fierce expansion comes as the company’s cloud services continue to experience strong demand across the world, forcing the addition of the sites in Osaka as well as in Belgium and in the US, where five buildings will be erected.
Additionally, reports out this month suggested Google’s parent company Alphabet to be in close conversations with Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco to aid in the construction of several data centres in the kingdom.
And in Sweden, work has begun to clear 40 acres of the 190-acre piece of land Google acquired in October 2017 in Avesta.
In a statement, the local municipality explained: “As part of preparing the Horndal Industrial Zone for development there will be several noticeable activities occurring on or around the zone over the next 6-18 months, this includes logging and felling of trees on a portion of the site, as well as infrastructure works for the connection of utilities.
“This does not mean that a decision to begin development of the site has been taken, but the works are the next step in enabling that decision to be made.”
Google was not immediately available for comment.
Back in Japan, the new Osaka infrastructures will become Google’s second cloud region in the country and the seventh in APAC, with Hong Kong set to open soon as its sixth region.
The Osaka investment is expected to be finalised and operation in 2019 “and it will make it easier for Japanese companies to build highly available, performant applications,” said Shinichi Abe, Managing Director, Google Cloud Japan, in a blog post.
He continued: “Osaka is a large port city and a leading commercial centre, and will be our seventh region in Asia Pacific, joining our future region in Hong Kong, and existing regions in Mumbai, Sydney, Singapore, Taiwan and Tokyo. Overall, the Osaka region brings the total number of existing and announced GCP regions around the world to 19—with more to come!
“[With the Osaka region] customers will benefit from lower latency for their cloud-based workloads and data. The region is also designed for high availability, launching with three zones to protect against service disruptions.”
by LDeX Group | Mar 5, 2018 | Blog, Press
Company breaks ground in Tennessee and announces investment in Oklahoma as it reveals it employs up to 1,900 directly on its data centre campuses.
Google has launched a cloud assault on all the world’s top public cloud providers with the announcement of a combined investment of $6bn in data centres and energy infrastructure, following Apple’s $10bn data centre push unveiled last month.
The plans were unveiled by CEO Sundar Pichai while attending the ground-breaking ceremony of the company’s new data centre in Clarksville/Montgomery County, Tennessee.
He said: “The Tennessee data centre is part of a $2.5bn investment we are making to open or expand data centres in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Oklahoma.
“These data centres are what make Google services run for you or your business (in Tennessee alone, we answer millions of searches a day, and about 18,000 businesses and non-profits use our search and advertising tools).”
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker,said: “The launch of Google’s data centre in Clarksville is great news for Montgomery County. These high-quality jobs will benefit families in a real way, and I applaud Google’s mission to improve education and advance workforce development for Americans.”
Of the $2.5bn CAPEX, $600m alone are to be invested into Google’s campus at the Mid-America Industrial Park near Pryor, Oklahoma, brining the company’s investment in the state to $2.5bn.
Google has also recently announced new data centre builds in Japan and work has started on a potential new data centre campus in Sweden.
Pichai said: “Our data centres also have a strong impact on the economies around them. People often discuss “the cloud” as if it is built out of air. But it’s actually made up of buildings, machinery, and people who construct and manage it all.
“Today we employ an estimated 1,900 people directly on our data centre campuses. We have created thousands of construction jobs—both for our data centres themselves, and for renewable energy generation.”
With that, Pichai took on the opportunity to lay down the cloud giant’s renewable energy purchasing commitments to date which will result in energy infrastructure investments of more than $3.5bn globally, “about two-thirds of that in the United States”.
He added: “In addition to these five data centres, we are investing in new or expanded offices in nine states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.
“Having talented people from different places, bringing diverse perspectives and backgrounds to work, is essential to the development of our products. In these locations, there will be jobs for thousands of people in a variety of roles—engineering, operations, sales and more.”
