Google Confirms $600M Oklahoma Project
Google today confirmed plans to build a large Internet data center at the Mid-America Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma. The $600 million data center will eventually employ 200 people, Google director of operations Lloyd Taylor said at a press conference this morning. Google will convert an existing warehouse on an 800-acre tract of land the company purchased at the park. The data center will open in the summer of 2008, with a second new building to be added later.
The announcement was widely expected after Google acknowledged that it had purchased the land in Pryor for consideration as a data center. The Oklahoma project continues a major building boom for Google, which earlier this year and announced $600 milion data center projects in Lenoir, North Carolina and Goose Creek, South Carolina and is reported to be considering a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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By Rich Miller 
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Comments
Does anyone know when Google will actually begin hiring for the Oklahoma data center? Am I better off sending a resume to Google now (and risk it 'falling through the cracks') or waiting until they're actually breaking ground (and risk being "too late" for the first round draft! ;-)). Right now on Google there is NO Oklahoma location listed in their job section. Ideas? Maybe meet you there!?! :-) OK desperately needs more IT gigs like this. No more call centers, please!! Thanks for reading!
Posted by: Pete at May 3, 2007 09:22 AM
My question is basically the same as Pete's. I am new to the industry and agree with him on the call center thing. I am from Eastern Oklahoma and moved to OKC for work while I was a Painting Contrator. In the midst, I changed careers. I would love an oppurtunity to move back to country and work for Google.
Posted by: John Burge at May 10, 2007 02:16 AM