The Google Modular Data Center is a set of shipping containers used by Google to house its servers. They were revealed on April 1, 2009, during the first Google Data Center Efficiency Summit in Mountain View, California.[1] The data centers are rumored to cost $600 million USD each, and use from 50 to 103 megawatts of electricity.[2] They house the computing resources that comprise the Google platform.
Locations
The locations of Google's various data centers are as follows:[3]
United States:
- Berkeley County, South Carolina
- Council Bluffs, Iowa
- Douglas County, Georgia
- Mayes County, Oklahoma
- Lenoir, North Carolina
- The Dalles, Oregon
South America:
Europe:
- St. Ghislain, Belgium
- Hamina, Finland
- Dublin, Ireland
Asia:
- Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Jurong West, Singapore
- Changhua County, Taiwan — to come online 2H 2013
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