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Google Buys Paper Mill Property for Future Data Center

Google is buying a paper mill site in Summa, Hamina, Finland, and replacing it with a data center. How's that for symbolism? Paper company StoraEnso signed an agreement to sell its buildings and most of the Summa Mill site to Google for about €40 million. They did agree that part of the site would be transferred to the City of Hamina for "other industrial uses."

Microsoft Delays Construction Of Iowa Data Center

If you want to compare servers to Hallmark products, Microsoft is no longer the little old lady who buys a shopping cart full of Christmas cards on December 26th.  Instead, the company has decided to send cards to fewer people and save its money for 11 months.  Or, to drop the metaphor, you might just say that Microsoft's delayed the construction of a data center.

LinkedIn Sets Up Shop in Chicago

LinkedIn has opened a new data center in Chicago. A post at the LinkedIn Blog says:LinkedIn has grown by leaps and bounds this past year and currently we are adding professionals to our site at the rate of one user per second.  The primary goal for the LinkedIn Operations organization is for our site and partner applications to be available 24/7.

Google Delays Opening Of Oklahoma Server Farm

Never mind vampires and zombies.  Here's something even scarier: Google, the search giant with a market cap of $113 billion, might be applying the brakes in a big way due to our country's financial situation.  The activation of a data center in Oklahoma is now supposed to take place sometime in 2010 instead of early next year.

Report: Google May Establish Data Center In Australia

With a data center here and a data center there, Google's covered most of the globe except for Greenland, Africa, and Australia.  Now, although nothing's certain yet, that last gap may get closed.

Yahoo Pays $15M For Nebraska Building

Suppose you're going to start a diet on Sunday.  That means a fill-the-trunk trip to the bakery is in order on Saturday, right?  So Yahoo seems to think, as word has come that it paid about $15 million for a space in La Vista, Nebraska.

Google To Create Sea Worthy Data Centers

Is Google in the Ocean Good or Bad?

Google's foray into the sea, which we discussed last week, is getting even more attention now courtesy of sites like Drudge Report and Digg.

Google Barges Into the Ocean

Google's quest for global domination organization is taking a step further as it moves out into the ocean. Yes, Google intends to have a presence not only in outer space, but in the sea as well.

Yahoo May Establish Data Center In Nebraska

La Vista is located near the eastern edge of Nebraska.  Its Wikipedia page makes it sound like a pleasant enough place, and if the implications of some recent reports are right, the city is about to get a big boost courtesy of Yahoo.