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Feb. 18, 2008 at 9:22am by Barry Schwartz
Blueprints Of Google's Oregon Data Center
Harper's Magazine has a spread showcasing a blueprint of Google's Oregon data center in The Dalles. The article documents the data center at 68,680 square feet with three buildings, two that are currently completed. The data center would require enough power to light up about 82,000 homes, equivalent to 103-megawatts...
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Jan. 28, 2008 at 12:29pm by Chris Sherman
Google A "Mystery Buyer" In Colorado?
Denver area residents were treated to some fun over the weekend with reports of the purchase of a 432-acre former campus of Storage Technology by a "mystery buyer," for as much as $60 million. The buyer insisted on absolute secrecy from everyone involved in the deal, including Sun Microsystems, which...
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Dec. 11, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Solar Panel Project Helps Power 402 Dishwasher Cycles Per Day
Garett Rogers reminded me of Google's Solar Panel Project, where Google installed about 9,000 solar panels at their headquarters to help power the offices. Google offers a status report of how much energy was generated from those panels. The latest reading says, "In the last 24 hours, Google produced 644...
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Oct. 23, 2007 at 3:27pm by Vanessa Fox
Google Seattle Celebrates A Birthday And Opens A New Office
Steve Yegge, an engineer at the Google Kirkland office, recently posted to the Google blog about the Kirkland office's third birthday. He also announced the opening of an engineering office in Fremont. Both locations are in the Seattle area -- Fremont is just north of downtown and Kirkland is across...
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Oct. 3, 2007 at 9:40am by Barry Schwartz
Google Finally Opens San Francisco Office
Google opens San Francisco office from News.com reports Google has finally opened a San Francisco office. The office was opened this past Monday and is located on Spear Street in the tech-heavy South of Market area. Many Google employees commute each day from San Francisco to Mountain View. It appears...
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Sep. 20, 2007 at 9:04am by Greg Sterling
Google Hires In-House Lobbyist To Address A Range Of Issues Before Congress
Anyone who believes that the United States is a truly free market should think again. The US government is in so many instances the gatekeeper or arbiter for the spoils of public assets, such as wireless spectrum. And Google has discovered how central political favor in Washington to its fortunes....
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Sep. 4, 2007 at 2:19pm by Danny Sullivan
Larryos, Raisin Brin, Porn Flakes & Other Google Cereals
I was at Google last month and did a double-take at the wall art up near one of the mini-kitchens. It featured familiar cereal brands morphed with Google personalities like Larry Page (Larryos) and Sergey Brin (Raisin Brin). I shot a few pictures, below, plus here's some of the...
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Jul. 25, 2007 at 1:37pm by Barry Schwartz
Advocacy Group Sues Over North Carolina's Incentives To Woo Google
Suit filed against state Google incentives from Triangle Business Journal reports that the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law has filed a lawsuit to challenge the incentives given to Google to build a server farm in North Carolina. The advocacy group claims the incentives violate various laws and provisions in...
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Jun. 19, 2007 at 1:18pm by Barry Schwartz
Google To Build $600 Million Data Center In Iowa
Google to build data center in Iowa from the Associated Press reports Google has confirmed rumors that they will be building a data center in Iowa....
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Jun. 15, 2007 at 8:50am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Open R&D Office In Shanghai
Google to Open Research Center In Shanghai from the Wall Street Journal reports Google is planning on opening a research and development center in Shanghai, China in an effort to gain market share from Baidu. The R&D center is expected to open on June 25, 2007, with a focus on...
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May. 3, 2007 at 10:26am by Barry Schwartz
Google & Gatorade, Together In Oklahoma
Google makes it official, they're moving into an industrial park where citizens of Pryor Creek, Oklahoma were already thrilled about for having attracted Gatorade. Pryor Mayor, Jimmy Tramel said, "Gatorade and Google are just unbelievable to think about," he adds "What's next?" Tulsa World reports the initial Google construction can...
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Apr. 27, 2007 at 11:04am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Build Data Center In Belgium
Google reportedly to build data center in Belgium from MarketWatch reports that Google is going to spend 250 million EUROs (about $341 million US) on a data center in Belgium....
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Apr. 26, 2007 at 10:40am by Danny Sullivan
Oklahoma, Where The Google Comes Sweepin' Down The Plain
From California, Google has spread out across the great land of the United States. New York! Washington! Arizona! And now which of the fifty nifty United States is Google heading to next? Oklahoma! Below, some news of Google's plans for the Sooner State and well as a recap of what...
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Apr. 3, 2007 at 12:16pm by Danny Sullivan
Snakes On A Google
We noted the great Google python rampage in headlines yesterday, but the story continues. Since it's a slow news day, so why not. On April 1, the python pet of a Google employee in New York got loose. No joke. The python was found yesterday, and no one was harmed....
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Mar. 22, 2007 at 10:20pm by Stacy Williams
President Jimmy Carter Speaks at Google’s Atlanta Office
President Jimmy Carter gave the welcoming remarks for Google Atlanta’s Open House Thursday. President Carter stated that his life has been transformed by Google, and that it would be hard to find many people in the developed world for whom that statement isn’t true. He gave a specific example of...
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Mar. 9, 2007 at 9:35am by Barry Schwartz
Stealth Tour Of Google Audio's Dallas Office
The Natural Search Blog documented their undercover tour of a new Google office in Dallas, Texas - that appears to be the new home of the Google Audio group. Here are some of their findings: Small cube space Very short dividing walls Little privacy Most cubes are in 4 work...
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 1:56pm by Danny Sullivan
5 Shiny Reasons Google Should Take Over Ford's Twin Cities Auto Plant
Ed Kohler makes a pitch for Google to come to St. Paul, Minnesota -- and it's both a fun and compelling one. He points out that Ford is abandoning its Twin Cities Assembly Plant that comes complete with its own hydro-electric power station, handy for power-hungry (that's electric power I'm...
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Feb. 12, 2007 at 9:23am by Barry Schwartz
Ask.com Chooses Central Washington For New Data Center
Ask.com, Intuit bringing new data centers to state reports that Ask.com has selected Washington State for the location of a new data center, designed to help save Ask.com money on power. Although Ask.com did not mention which building they have selected, we know they "signed a lease in an existing...
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Feb. 2, 2007 at 9:05am by Barry Schwartz
Google Demanded North Carolina Stay Quiet
Google put pressure on legislators to stay quiet at WCNC-TV reports that during Google's negotiations with North Carolina to house a huge server farm, lawmakers in North Carolina were pressured to keep quiet about Google's tax break demands. State Commerce Secretary Jim Fain was told that if it was not...
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Jan. 30, 2007 at 8:21am by Barry Schwartz
Where In The World Is Danny Sullivan? Google Kirkland
If you have been wondering where Danny Sullivan has been over the past week or so, I have spotted a post at SEOMoz that has recent pictures of Danny. Danny, Rand and friends were invited over to Google's Kirkland office, the place where most of the Google Webmaster Central team...
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Jan. 19, 2007 at 1:25pm by Barry Schwartz
Google Picks North Carolina For Server Farm
Google Plans N.C. Data Center by Forbes confirms Google has selected North Carolina over South Carolina as the location for their huge data center. Yesterday, we wrote how the Carolina's are bidding against each other to win Google's business. Google will be spending about $600 million on their new data...
