Google's Data Center Strategy Revealed...At The Rotary Club

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Google's Data Center Strategy Revealed…At The Rotary Club

Posted by John Foley, Nov 30, 2007 01:24 PM
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For months, I've been trying to get Google to discuss its data center  
strategy. My approach was flawed. I could have gotten more information  
at a Rotary Club luncheon this week in Hickory, N.C.

Until recently, Google didn't talk to anyone about the data centers  
it's building around the world at a cost of about $600 million each,  
but company officials realized they needed to open up as the locals  
started asking questions about the tall fences, bulldozers, and dust  
being kicked up in their communities. So Google now talks strategy  
with the people directly affected.

As reported by John Dayberry in the Hickory Record, the manager of  
Google's under-construction data center in Lenoir, N.C., met yesterday  
with folks at the Hickory Rotary Club. Tom Jacobik told the group of  
about 100 that Google's data center there could be operational before  
the year's end or early in 2008. Among the tidbits gleaned: Google  
plans to employ approximately 200 people at the facility. (That seems  
to be the rule of thumb for new Google data centers.) Google's getting  
involved in IT skills education and retraining at local colleges. And  
Jacobik, one-time director of tactical operations for Oracle, is  
helping supervise construction of another Google data center in  
Charleston, S.C.

Last week, Google officials were in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they  
addressed the Chamber of Commerce's quarterly meeting. Ken Patchett  
(he manages Google's data center in The Dalles, Ore.) gave a status  
report on Google's Council Bluffs facility, answered some questions,  
and dodged others. As reported by the Des Moines Register, Patchett  
also had breakfast at Duncan's Café on Main Street. (Check out the  
picture; I'll take two eggs scrambled, toast, black coffee.)

Patchett gave a "no comment" when a Register reporter asked about the  
number of servers deployed by Google worldwide. And when local farmer  
Bruce Barnett asked just what Google planned to do with 1,000 acres  
the company purchased south of town, he was told that Google was still  
thinking about that.

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