Google spent almost $ 21 billion to build data centers

Since 2006, Google’s capital expenditures have amounted to more than $ 21 billion , most of them in the construction of data centers , the purchase of servers and network equipment. The construction of each data center usually requires investments from $ 200 million to $ 600 million.


Google technician works in Oregon data center

Such scales really amaze. Although the exact size of the investment in data centers is not known, but in any case a huge amount. In each of us, the user of free Google services, the company has already invested at least 10-20 dollars of capital investment.

In 2012-2013, Google’s expenses increased even more as the company expanded its international expansion, Data Center Knowledge reports . So, in the II quarter. In 2013, a record $ 1.6 billion was spent on data centers. The fourth quarter of 2010 is not considered, because then the company bought a building in Manhattan for $ 2 billion, mainly for offices.
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Since November 2012, the company spent $ 200 million to expand its data center in Iowa, $ 600 million to expand its data center in South Carolina, another $ 600 million to North Carolina, and $ 390 million to a data center in Belgium. In recent months, Google has expanded its infrastructure in South America and Asia.

Google has the most powerful infrastructure among all IT companies. The closest pursuers are Microsoft and Amazon. For example, Steve Ballmer recently boasted that they already have more than 1 million servers , the company spent $ 15 billion on data centers and has already overtaken Amazon in the number of servers. Microsoft must support the smooth running of web applications such as Office 365, as well as Xbox Live services. For example, for the Xbox One infrastructure, as they said, 300 thousand servers will be needed. Plus the traditional services Bing, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Windows Update, and so on.