Google Announces Its First Latin-American Data Center

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 6, 2012 @06:40AM from the places-I-want-to-visit dept.

1sockchuck writes "Google continues to expand the global reach of its infrastructure. Today the company announced plans to build its first data center in Latin America, investing $150 million in a facility in Quilicura, Chile. Google cited growing Internet use in Latin America, and said Chile has reliable infrastructure and a business-friendly environment. Last year Google announced plans for three new server farms in the Asia Pacific region, as well as a new data center in Dublin. Over the past year, Google has invested more than $2.5 billion on servers and data centers."

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Makes sense. by heypete · 2012-09-06 06:50 · Score: 3, Insightful

South America, much like Africa, is relatively poorly served in regards to local datacenters and backbone network connectivity compared to North America, Europe, and East Asia.
There's a large market there, so it makes sense that companies would start investing in local resources to serve that market.