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For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com)

Posted by timothy on from the pleasant-rolling-hills dept.

1sockchuck writes: With new construction projects underway in Alabama and Tennessee, Google will soon have 5 of its 8 company-built U.S. data center campuses located in the Southeast. The strategy is unique among major cloud players, who typically have server farms on each coast, plus one in the heartland. Is Google's focus on the Southeast a leading indicator of future data center development in the region? Or is it simply a case of a savvy player unearthing unique retrofit opportunities that may not work for other cloud builders?

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  1. Re: Something about eggs and a basket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    The TVA is the largest hydro-electric generator in the US. OF course, those 100 jobs, you know, those people go to restaurants and stores and spend money and tip and create income for other people in the community. But, that doesn't fit your steal from the rich progressive brainwashing.

  2. Re:Something about eggs and a basket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anything taking out 2 or more of those data centers out at the same time, for a prolonged time, is either:
    1) a global cataclysmic event, in which case it really does not matter where your data centers are.
    2) a massive US Infrastructure failure, power of network, in which case it also really does not matter where your data center is. A prolonged failure of this magnitude is unlikely to be, and stay, geographically limited. Also your users are likely of the grid as well

    There is a limit to the effectiveness of spreading. When you have as many data centers as Google has, the picture is changes. A few clusters of data centers here and there is not a big issue.