The Dalles, Oregon has become the latest member of the Billion Dollar Data Center Club. Google said today that it will spend $600 million to expand its data center campus on the banks of the Columbia River in The Dalles, bringing the giant company...

Google has purchased a massive former Gatorade plant in Pryor, Oklahoma for potential use as a data center, and has also bought 240 megawatts of wind power to support its Oklahoma operations.

Google has invested more than $21 billion in its Internet infrastructure since the company began building its own custom data centers in 2006.

Google says it has accelerated an initiative to encrypt data moving between its data centers, citing growing concerns about data privacy amid ongoing revelations about the code-breaking capabilities of the NSA and other global security agencies.

Google's extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 billion in its data centers in the second quarter of 2013.

Google plans to expand its data center presence in Oregon with a new two-story building at its campus in The Dalles. The company has filed plans with local officials to build a 164,000 square foot data center on its 37-acre property in The Dalles .

Google and wind farm developer O2, jointly announced that Google will be purchasing the entire electricity output of the new wind farm in northern Sweden to support the Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The 24 turbine project will have...