Google expands its data centers in Asia

In Asia, the number of Internet users continues to increase, and in order to ensure the normal operation of its resources in this region, Google plans to expand local data centers. The data center in Singapore will undergo the greatest changes, and the DC, which is located in Taiwan, will also be expanded.

As for Singapore, the local data center Google earned 18 months ago. Now to the first object add a second, multi-level DC, which will be located next. The cost of such an object will be $ 500 million. Earlier, the corporation has already spent about $ 600 million on this data center, so $ 1 billion of the search giant has been invested in Singapore.


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All transformations and new construction projects will be completed within two years. Now the corporation has posted a render of what the new product will look like after construction is completed. According to the company, the expanded capacity of the Singapore data center will help Google services run faster in Southeast Asia, India and several other regions.


On the render, caring developers showed even trees and cars with arrows, apparently to make the picture more informative.

The second data center from Asia, which is planned to expand, is located in Taiwan, it began work in 2013. The scale of updates in this DC is much more modest. The corporation plans to invest about $ 66 million in expansion (a few months earlier, Google invested another $ 100 million in this DC). This data center uses wind energy (a special wind power plant was built nearby). Its cost is $ 600 million.






Google is actively using "green" energy at every opportunity.

At the same time, the corporation has no plans to implement a previously announced plan to create a third data center, which was supposed to be placed in Hong Kong. In Asia, land and real estate prices are quite high, so it is more profitable for corporations to expand existing capacities rather than build a DC in a new place.


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Note that users from Asia are served by European DCs, however, with the introduction of additional capacity, the company's services will indeed work faster for those users who live in regions close to data centers.

In addition to Asia, the corporation is building new DCs in other regions. For example, in spring, a $ 600 million data center from Oregon was commissioned. The need to increase capacity in Asia, Google justifies a stable and very fast growth of Web users who use mobile devices. For example, only in India in 2015 (from January to May) there were 40 million more users.