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      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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    1. “ Asia's the fastest growing market for Internet users and Internet usage so we're seeing large numbers of new users coming online every day. ”

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  1. Google plans $200 million Asian data centers

    usatoday.com (Oct 6 2011)

    1. Google plans $200 million Asian data centers Google plans to invest at least $200 million to build its first three data centers in Asia as it expands its infrastructure to keep pace with the region's burgeoning Internet use. The Internet search giant has bought land in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore for the data centers, which typically are secure facilities packed with thousands of computers that store and serve vast amounts of data. It aims to finish construction in one to two years, but didn't give specific start dates. The Taiwan and Hong Kong data centers are expected to cost $100 million each, including the cost of land. It didn't give a figure for Singapore. "Asia's the fastest growing market for Internet users and Internet usage so we're seeing large numbers of new users coming online every day," Taj Meadows, Google's policy communications manager in Asia, said Thursday. Google is setting ... (Read Full Article)

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