Google (GOOG) spent $698 million on its infrastructure in the second quarter of 2008, a slight drop from a record first quarter but still among the largest quarterly capital expenditures yet, the company
said yesterday [1]. While falling short of matching the $842 million in the first quarter, the latest capex figure virtually matches the previous high of $699 million in the second quarter of 2006. The record capex investment reflects the acceleration of Google’s data center construction program in 2007. Here’s a look at the trend:
- 1Q 2006: $345 million
- 2Q 2006: $699 million
- 3Q 2006: $492 million
- 4Q 2006: $367 million
- 1Q 2007: $597 million
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- 2Q 2007: $575 million
- 3Q 2007: $553 million
- 4Q 2007: $678 million
- 1Q 2008: $842 million
- 2Q 2008: $698 million
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The capital expenditures are dedictaed to ongoing construction on the four major data center projects Google announced in the U.S. in 2007, including facilities in
North Carolina [2],
South Carolina [3],
Oklahoma [4] and
Iowa [5]. Google says its capital expenditures are “related to IT infrastructure investments, including data centers, servers, and networking equipment.”
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] said yesterday: http://investor.google.com/releases/2008Q2.html
[2] North Carolina: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jan/19/google_picks_nc_for_600m_data_center.html
[3] South Carolina: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/04/google_announces_600m_so_car_project.html
[4] Oklahoma: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/May/02/google_confirms_600m_oklahoma_project.html
[5] Iowa: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jun/19/google_confirms_data_center_in_council_buffs_iowa.html
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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