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Weekend Roundup: Google Data Center in India?
November 1st, 2010 : John Rath
Reports of a huge Google data center in India, Linux now supports Tilera architecture, Cirrascale announces support for OpenStack, Petascale Computing facility receives construction award. Read More
Google Drives 6 Percent of Internet Traffic
October 25th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google now represents an average 6.4 percent of all global Internet traffic, up 1 percent from last year, according to the latest analysis from Arbor Networks. Read More
Google Resumes Work on Oklahoma Data Center
October 21st, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google is resuming work on a major data center project in Pryor, Oklahoma, saying it will soon need to being additional data center capacity online. The $600 million Oklahoma project was delayed due to the slowing economy, but is now expected to be online by the end of 2011. Read More
Google’s Data Center Spending Soars
October 15th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google's data center spending soared in the third quarter of 2010, as the company reported capital expenditures of $757 million, the second-highest quarterly total in the company's history. Read More
Google: Our Fiber Gets Shot Down
September 21st, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google is digging trenches for underground fiber deployment to its data center in The Dalles, Oregon after repeated incidents in which hunters shot up the company's aerial fiber cables. Read More
Google Using Sea Water to Cool Finland Project
September 15th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google will use cool sea water in the cooling system for its new data center in Hamina, Finland, which may be the first sea-cooled data center. The initiative continues Google's focus on data center efficiency and sustainability. Read More
Google Adds Capacity for Instant Launch
September 10th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Instead of buying a gazillion more servers, Google's engineering team hunkered down with the other teams involved in the Instant launch and developed workarounds. Read More
Daniel Costello Moves from Microsoft to Google
September 7th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google has confirmed that Daniel Costello, who has been a key member of data center design team at Microsoft and Intel, has joined the company's data center staff. Costello has been a key architect of Microsoft's move to modular data center design. Read More
Google & Facebook: A Tale of Two Data Centers
August 10th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Do you pursue James Bond-level secrecy for your data center, or invite the mayor in for a tour? An Oregon paper presents a "study in contrasts" between the Google facility in The Dalles and the new Facebook facility being built in Prineville, Oregon. Read More