Google Confirms $600M South Carolina Data Center

miller60 writes "Google continues its furious data center building program in the Carolinas. Today the company announced a $600 million data center in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Google has already begun construction on a $600 million data center project in Lenoir, North Carolina, and is in the permitting process on another huge project in Richland County, South Carolina. Google's appetite for large tracts of land and cheap power are driving the site location process. Similar huge projects in central Washington are already transforming the tiny town of Quincy, where real estate prices have spiked, with open land fetching as much as 10 times its previous value."

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Nice locations

[ShaunC]

Open land and cheap power, yeah, that's it. The fact that the Carolinas are awfully close to DC, just a coincidence. And it's not like Google's giant facility in Washington State is going to be a stone's throw away from the NSA facility in Yakima, right?

North and South Carolina don't rank so well in terms of electricity cost per state. If you want cheap tracts of land and cheap electricity, you build a data center in Oklahoma or Kansas (yes, Virginia, there is fiber there), not in Washington or the Carolinas...

South Carolina

[TheRealMindChild]

You think it's an accident that they picked the state with the lowest high school graduation rate in the country? Hello, welcome to Walmart.

Re:We're not all hillbillies here...

[Overzeetop]

Yeah, but most of you are.

Anyway, with the massive influx of people and the NAHB lobby making sure that there are no per-residence capital improvement fees the schools will look just like the existing "home sites" - full of trailers.

(yes, I'm being crass, but it's true - unless your local people get some backbones you're going to get to watch your tax _rates_ triple or quadruple to cover the infrastrucutre costs that these newcomers are going to drive)