• Google Opens New Dublin Data Center

    September 28th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Google today opened its new data center in Dublin, reinforcing that city's status as a pivotal hub for cloud computing services for European markets. Google invested €75 million ($96.7 million US) in the facility, which joins major cloud data centers from Amazon and Microsoft in establishing Dublin as a key transit point for cloud data. Read More

  • Google Provisions Wind Power in Oklahoma

    September 26th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Google has cut a deal with a local utility to provide wind energy for the power grid supporting a large Google data center in Pryor, Oklahoma. The environmental group Greenpeace hailed the agreement as a model for how cloud computing firms can influence electric utilities to boost their use of renewable energy. Read More

  • Google’s Data Center Team is Hiring

    September 12th, 2012 : Colleen Miller

    At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have four new job listings from Google, which is seeking an Electrical Engineer, Data Center R&D, an Electrical Engineer, Data Center, a Data Center Facilities Mechanical Engineer and a Data Center Network Engineer in Mountain View, California. Read More

  • Google Expands into Latin America With New Data Center in Chile

    September 6th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Google is expanding its infrastructure into South America. Today the search giant announced plans to build a $150 million data center in Quilicura, Chile. The facility will be Google's first data center in Latin America, and continues the international expansion of the network powering Google's growing empire of online products. Read More

  • Data Center Jobs: Google

    August 13th, 2012 : Colleen Miller

    At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Google for an Electrical Engineer, Data Center R&D in Mountainview, Calif. Read More

  • Google Investing $2.5 Billion A Year in Data Centers

    July 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Google invested $774 million in its Internet infrastructure in the second quarter of 2012, an increase from $607 million in the previous quarter. Over the last four quarters, Google has invested nearly $2.5 billion in servers and server farms, illustrating the strategic importance of data centers in Google's business. Read More

  • Mayer is New Yahoo CEO, Shakeup at VMware

    July 17th, 2012 : John Rath

    Yahoo appoints high-profile Google exec Marissa Mayer as its new CEO, reports abound of a shakeup at VMware in which CEO Paul Maritz may shift to responsibilities at EMC, Cisco acquires Virtuata. Read More

  • Acquisition News: Salesforce.com, Google, Oracle, EMC

    June 6th, 2012 : John Rath

    Acquisition news in the tech and social media industries includes: Salesforce.com and Oracle buying social media intelligence; EMC acquiring performance management and Google gains productivity software with mobile capability. Read More

  • Google Security: No Sharks, But a One-Eyed Dog

    June 5th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Google has a security mascot at its Oklahoma data center. Miss G is a one-eyed dog that was adopted by the Google data center team after they found the injured canine on the data center property. "Miss G is our secret weapon," says site manager Mike Wooten. Read More

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