The city of Quincy, Washington is spending $9 million to build a system to supply recycled water for huge data centers operated by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Yahoo (YHOO), Intuit and Sabey Corp.
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine includes a feature article about the growing importance of data centers, which has been posted to the Times web site.
A proposed data center project in western Massachusetts has brought together MIT, UMass , Cisco Systems (CSCO) and EMC Corp. (EMC) for a $100 million facility showcasing "green" technologies.
Apple (AAPL) has selected North Carolina as the location for a new data center and will invest more than $1 billion in the project over nine years, Gov. Bev Perdue announced today.