Google opening new data centre in Dublin

Digital Journal (Sep 30 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

1. Internet giant Google has invested in a new data centre in Dublin, Ireland to help it meet the massive demand for storage from cloud computing servivces Google has invested €75million (around £65m, $100) in an eleven acre data centre in Dublin, Ireland, this comes just two weeks after Google opened a €200m data centre in Hamina, Finland. According to Google, Finland and Ireland were chosen as the locations of the new data centres due to the relatively cool climate, which saves Google money by providing the data centres with free cooling instead of having to use expensive air-conditioning. It is thought that the data centre will create 200 short-term jobs for construction workers etcetera, and thirty long-term jobs for data centre staff, Google also added that its data centres use half the energy that other data centres use. The internet giant already has a data centre in Dublin and stated ... (Read Full Article)

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