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IDG Publications Have You Seen Oracle’s Data Center Construction?
greenm3.com (Jul 11 2009) Cloud Computing
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I had a a laugh watching the news about Oracle’s data center and the announcement by the local gov’t officials regarding the facility. I wrote my own blog entry about the Sequoia data center presentation.
But, I’ve seen the data center site, and there hasn’t been construction this year, and the only evidence of construction is a bit of foundation work. There is no electrical infrastructure or super structure for the data center. The below picture and press would make you think the site is a failed data center construction project put on hold.
I tried to get an aerial map from google and bing.com, but the pictures are too old to show the construction site foundation.
DataCenterKnowledge has a post referencing the local Salt Lake City paper.
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