Google Plans To Build New Data Centers

After the announcement of Google, which said the creation of new data centers, Tuesday Development Board of Montgomery County (Tennessee, USA) revealed the intentions of the company to acquire land in the city of Clarksville, specifically the land on which the facilities of the plant Hemlock Semiconductor, a building disused plastic company is located.

After approving the agreement by voting in Montgomery, Google would be willing to invest $ 500 million and about 70 direct jobs at the premises of his company that, among others, will house evaporative cooling systems, which reduce the power consumption 70 to 30 percent and a double network of power and data to prevent failure.

Data centers are called by Google "the heart of the Internet" and are facilities highly refrigerated where Internet traffic is stored and facilitate the transmission speed of information are usually facilities of other companies reformed and adapted to reduce the impact ecologically. It currently has 13 facilities: six in the US, one in Chile, three in Europe and three in Asia.

This year Google managed the construction of new data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tennessee, considering the expansion of the network and demand for speed.

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